disabling explorer.exe for a given account

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Hello,

I want to disable explorer.exe (the taskbar process) for an account i
have created for a windows professional xp machine.

This account will be used to operate a specific and single application,
and I dont want the user to mess around.

Any idea?

Thank you,
BTG
 
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Hello,

I want to disable explorer.exe (the taskbar process) for an account i
have created for a windows professional xp machine.

This account will be used to operate a specific and single application,
and I dont want the user to mess around.

Any idea?

Thank you,
BTG
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I would first look at policies.

The other reply mentioned changing the shell line in the registry. This
may or may not be useful to you. Not sure about XP, but in earlier
version of Windows you could change the shell to an application, such as
AutoCAD, and that application will start up at boot time as the shell.
Note that it will not provide some functions that the shell does, and
your application may depend on the shell as well.

Also, there are many different ways to run a program in Windows. You can
bring up the task manager and go to the 'Applications Tab', 'New Task'
button. So the task manager would need to be disabled. You can start any
program by double-clicking an associated file. Most dialog boxes where
you browse for files will allow you to open/run any program as well.

And yes, knowing the program may help yo uget an answer.

Regards,

DanS
 
It's a POS application I developped for a retailer client. The POS
starts automaticallt after logon (with a logon script) and Windows
shuts down automatically when the operator closes the POS.

The idea of disabling explorer.exe is (1) to avoid the user accessing
the taskbar and other applications on the machine and (2) to save
memory (the POS can runs on old 300mhz)

if I change
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi­crosoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

will that affect all accounts?

I need the Administrator account to be able to operate normally.

thank you
BTG
 
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