Great update for "Msconfig" !

[plun]

Hi

Don´t know if this will be within this months Windowsupdate
but this new tab with direct link to several tools is great.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=9689f6e9-aded-44b8-bbbb-beae1b4a4bc9

Also this one for shared PCs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...56-E3DA-42EA-857D-92B716077A84&displaylang=en


Genuine validation is needed.

 

[plun]

Forget a important warning maybe about shared PCs and it might
also be problems with MSAS ?

"Warning: The Toolkit is not intended for use on family computers as a
parental controls measure — many of the security features may have
adverse effects on family computers. Be sure to review the Handbook
section on restricting children on a family computer if you are
installing the Toolkit at home."

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks, plun--both good ones.

I've got the shared PC tool in a USB key--I expect it to be very useful, but
haven't made use of it yet.

 

[Andrew Z Carpenter]

Thanks, plun--both good ones.

I've got the shared PC tool in a USB key--I expect it to be very
useful, but haven't made use of it yet.

I've used it on one machine so far.. I locked that sucker down so
tight that when it farts it calls Dolphins!

I think everything it does can be achieved with policies and by
editing the registry.

I haven't yet tried the Disk Protection, that's something I'll be
playing with later this week. We use DeepFreeze on site, and it
will be interesting to compare the two.

MS is already down in points because it requires a dedicated
partition for it to work. :-/

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks--I think I have a laptop I can use for experimentation with this
sometime later in the week--looks like there's some learning curve involved.

--

 

[Andrew Z Carpenter [MVP]]

Thanks--I think I have a laptop I can use for experimentation with this
sometime later in the week--looks like there's some learning curve
involved.

My first tip -- don't install it while logged on as the user you want to
restrict. I ended up with *no* users displayed on the Welcome Screen, I had
to log in with CTRL-ALT-DEL (x2) and type the username and password.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

My first tip -- don't install it while logged on as the user you want to
restrict. I ended up with *no* users displayed on the Welcome Screen, I
had
to log in with CTRL-ALT-DEL (x2) and type the username and password.

LOL! I'll definitely remember that one.