Help needed to restrict users on laptop.?

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We have just taken delivery of 10 laptops which are for a students. The
laptops are XP Pro, what we want to do is use a policy of some kind to lock
the laptop down for the user, I.e so they have no access to control panel or
the C: drive etc. We already have this in place on our 2000 server and it
work well. We want to have something similar on the laptop but the laptop
will not be connected to the server and will be taken home by students to do
course work as and when they need to.

I have tried gpedit.msc (setting up a local computer policy)but this affects
the administrator as well. What we want is for
the user to log on and get the restrictions and when the administrator logs
on
he gets everything. Because the laptops are going to be used by a large
number of
different people we are only going to create one single user account on the
machine
that all users will use to log on. ie. (6user1)

I found that if you log them on to the server it will pick up the security
from the OU, even when people log off it keeps the security but as soon as
the computer shuts down it looses the settings. I even did a search for .cpl
extensions (control panel) and denied access to this to everyone except the
administrator. This worked to a certain extent but its a bit long winded.

an anyone give us ant tips for this or recommendations to what they do?
 
Try clicking around this link below. They give free
insructions for reg-edits that will help you do what you
want. I even purchased their "Teak-Manager" program which
does those edits and even more comprihensive edits on a
all-user or per-user basis automatically. It was around
30 bucks.
Thru about 25 different reg "Tweaks" and "Norton Internet
Security Pro" I was able to restrict all users on my
machine to use an see just the programs and files I want
them to, not be able to install programs, restricted
from changing any settings/options or accessing any
internet sites I did not want them to. And still have the
admin acct/login have full 99.9% un-hiddered
access/privliges.
Go to:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php?4
 
p.s.: I forgot, if you need any tips on getting Norton
Internet Security Pro XP/Norton Personal Firewall to work
with Win XP Pro/NTFS file format with multiple user accts
let me know. The firewall is not made to work under
multiple user logins but there is a work-around.
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Try clicking around this link below. They give free
insructions for reg-edits that will help you do what you
want. I even purchased their "Teak-Manager" program which
does those edits and even more comprihensive edits on a
all-user or per-user basis automatically. It was around
30 bucks.
Thru about 25 different reg "Tweaks" and "Norton Internet
Security Pro" I was able to restrict all users on my
machine to use an see just the programs and files I want
them to, not be able to install programs, restricted
from changing any settings/options or accessing any
internet sites I did not want them to. And still have the
admin acct/login have full 99.9% un-hiddered
access/privliges.
Go to:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php?4
 
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