Blocking access to IE6

[Guest]

I am an admin user on my laptop (Win XP Home). My daughter is a normal user.
How can I stop her using Internet Explorer?

I have removed the icons from the desktop, start menu, and anywhere else
that I can think of. But I can see from the Temporary Internet Files that she
is still using IE. (I'm guessing that she probably does a search for
"iexplore.exe".)

We have several alternative browsers, all of which are on her desktop.

Regards,
Alan

 

[Patrick Philippot]

Hi,

Sorry for jumping in and advertising for myself but maybe you could have a
look there: www.pctimewatch.com ? PC TimeWatch allows you, among other
things, to restrict access to the Internet, whatever the browser.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Gary Smith]

You could locate iexplore.exe and set the permissions so that only
Administrators and System have access to it. That should work, at least
for a while, although attempts to apply technological solutions to
parenting problems are rarely successful in the long term.

I am an admin user on my laptop (Win XP Home). My daughter is a normal user.
How can I stop her using Internet Explorer?

I have removed the icons from the desktop, start menu, and anywhere else
that I can think of. But I can see from the Temporary Internet Files that she
is still using IE. (I'm guessing that she probably does a search for
"iexplore.exe".)

 

[Guest]

I tried that. Permissions are not available in XP Home.

If I rename the file to something like abc123.dll, will that screw up the OS?

By the way, it's not a parenting problem. She prefers IE6. The rest of the
family use Firefox. I'm not very technical, and every day I read more and
more about IE security holes. It scares me, because I wouldn't know what to
do. I download every Windows update, because I use IE for the MS forums.

Regards,
Alan

 

[Gary Smith]

Sorry, I did not know that XP Home was that limited. Odds are, thanks to
Windows File Protection, that if you rename iexplore.exe to
something else, Windows will simply put back a new copy. I tried renaming
it on my Win2K system, and a new copy appeared in a couple of seconds.
There's an entry in the Event Log that says:

"File replacement was attempted on the protected system file d:\program
files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe. This file was restored to the
original version to maintain system stability. The file version of the
system file is 6.0.2800.1106."

There are ways arounf SFP, but it may not be worth the trouble.

So far as using IE goes, I prefer it to Firefox myself and won't be giving
it up any time soon. My feeling is that the panic-mongering regarding IE
is greatly overblown and that if you keep your system updated and use it
sensibly, there's very little to worry about.

On the other hand, if you really don't want your duaghter to use IE,
asking her not to should be sufficient, no? If not, then what you have is
precisely a parenting problem.

I tried that. Permissions are not available in XP Home.