Disable Windows and Internet Explorer

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Please help; How do I disable both Windows and Internet
explorer?

A win2000 workstation is on a win2000 domain and needs to
access another workstation's drive so it has to be
physically connected to the network/domain.
They do not want the user to be able to browse the web
using Internet explorer and not be able to browse the
network using Windows explorer.
How do I disable both Windows and Internet explorer.?????
I should be able to do this with a simply single click
(like in a local group policy or so)but I cannot.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Paul
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You can set the Reg_Sz string value of;
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"
to the full path of the program you wish to start by default. found at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

So setting
"Shell"="C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe"
may work for you
 
Thanks Dave for your answer but could you please be a bit
more specific? I am not sure what you mean by this and how
will this disable both Windows and Internet Explorer.
Thanks.

Paul
-----Original Message-----
You can set the Reg_Sz string value of;
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"
to the full path of the program you wish to start by default. found at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

So setting
"Shell"="C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe"
may work for you

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Paul said:
Please help; How do I disable both Windows and Internet
explorer?

A win2000 workstation is on a win2000 domain and needs to
access another workstation's drive so it has to be
physically connected to the network/domain.
They do not want the user to be able to browse the web
using Internet explorer and not be able to browse the
network using Windows explorer.
How do I disable both Windows and Internet explorer.?????
I should be able to do this with a simply single click
(like in a local group policy or so)but I cannot.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Paul
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This would still allow the user to launch explorer.exe. I think this is a
bit of an odd request, anyway. I guess if nothing else, you could change
permissions on explorer.exe, but, to the OP, why not protect the data you
don't want the user to get to instead of trying to prevent ways of getting
to it? Denying access to a program that can be used to access data is not a
security concept. You should protect the data itself.

Ray at home

Dave Patrick said:
You can set the Reg_Sz string value of;
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"
to the full path of the program you wish to start by default. found at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

So setting
"Shell"="C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe"
may work for you

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Paul said:
Please help; How do I disable both Windows and Internet
explorer?

A win2000 workstation is on a win2000 domain and needs to
access another workstation's drive so it has to be
physically connected to the network/domain.
They do not want the user to be able to browse the web
using Internet explorer and not be able to browse the
network using Windows explorer.
How do I disable both Windows and Internet explorer.?????
I should be able to do this with a simply single click
(like in a local group policy or so)but I cannot.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Paul
.
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As Ray says attempting to deny the shell is probably the wrong way to
approach the desired end result.
 
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