Hi, does anybody knoe how to disallow users from creating a shortcut on the
desktop or startmenu?
//Henrik

Alstersjo wrote:

> Hi, does anybody knoe how to disallow users from creating a shortcut
> on the desktop or startmenu?
> //Henrik

It depends on whether you have XP Pro or Home Edition. In XP Pro, you
can set many fine-grained permissions using the Group Policy Editor
(gpedit.msc). Be extremely careful with the Policy Editor - it is
completely possible to lock *yourself* out of the system.

If you only have Home Edition, look at MVP Doug Knox's utility, XP
Security Console and see if it will do what you want. You can get it
under his Utilities section at http://www.dougknox.com.

You haven't given us any information about your system, or whether you
want to do this on your home machine, a few office machines, or 3000
machines. If you want to do this on a large scale like for a school
computer lab or office workstations, consider using DeepFreeze from
http://www.faronics.com/html/product.asp.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

Hi Malke
Thanks for your response.
I use Win XP Pro. And it is in a school environment and it is for about 100
machines or so. But we are using clones so distribution shouldn't be any
problem.
//Henrik

"Malke" wrote:

> Alstersjo wrote:
>
> > Hi, does anybody knoe how to disallow users from creating a shortcut
> > on the desktop or startmenu?
> > //Henrik
>
> It depends on whether you have XP Pro or Home Edition. In XP Pro, you
> can set many fine-grained permissions using the Group Policy Editor
> (gpedit.msc). Be extremely careful with the Policy Editor - it is
> completely possible to lock *yourself* out of the system.
>
> If you only have Home Edition, look at MVP Doug Knox's utility, XP
> Security Console and see if it will do what you want. You can get it
> under his Utilities section at http://www.dougknox.com.
>
> You haven't given us any information about your system, or whether you
> want to do this on your home machine, a few office machines, or 3000
> machines. If you want to do this on a large scale like for a school
> computer lab or office workstations, consider using DeepFreeze from
> http://www.faronics.com/html/product.asp.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
>

Alstersjo wrote:

> Hi Malke
> Thanks for your response.
> I use Win XP Pro. And it is in a school environment and it is for
> about 100 machines or so. But we are using clones so distribution
> shouldn't be any problem.
> //Henrik

Then create policies with gpedit.msc.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

Ok, thanks.
But do you know wher in policy I find this. I can't find it myself.
//Henrik

"Malke" wrote:

> Alstersjo wrote:
>
> > Hi Malke
> > Thanks for your response.
> > I use Win XP Pro. And it is in a school environment and it is for
> > about 100 machines or so. But we are using clones so distribution
> > shouldn't be any problem.
> > //Henrik
>
> Then create policies with gpedit.msc.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
>

Alstersjo wrote:

> Ok, thanks.
> But do you know wher in policy I find this. I can't find it myself.
> //Henrik
>
> "Malke" wrote:
>
>> Alstersjo wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Malke
>> > Thanks for your response.
>> > I use Win XP Pro. And it is in a school environment and it is for
>> > about 100 machines or so. But we are using clones so distribution
>> > shouldn't be any problem.
>> > //Henrik
>>
>> Then create policies with gpedit.msc.
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>>

You're going to need to look in Administrative Templates. A great source
for learning how to do this sort of thing is Microsoft's TechNet
website:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/default.mspx

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"