Re: Administrator ability to deny User acess to software programes?



Ian wrote:
You can do this with filesystem-permissions, however I don't think XP Home will allow you to make the necessary adjustments. The permissions exist, provided it's an NTFS disk, it's just that XP Home has no controls for setting them.




Actually, that's not entirely true; it's just a little hard to do in WinXP Home. Rebooting into Safe Mode allows the WinXP Home user the ability to set pretty much all of the same permissions as WinXP Pro in normal mode. Further, there are 3rd party tools available to help. For instance:

Windows® XP Security Console
Version 1.4 - 10/26/2003
Copyright 2003 - Doug Knox
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm


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