Limited account installing programs?

[Guest]

Hello,

I was making some changes to a companies rights on a XP Home box and I set
the admin to a regular user/Limited Account. I wanted to prevent him from
installing Party Poker and other programs. However after the change I tried
to install the program and it did! How is that? What can I do to stop
unauthorzed installs of anykind?

Thanks
Joe

 

[Allan]

Hello,

I was making some changes to a companies rights on a XP Home box and I set
the admin to a regular user/Limited Account. I wanted to prevent him from
installing Party Poker and other programs. However after the change I
tried
to install the program and it did! How is that? What can I do to stop
unauthorzed installs of anykind?

Thanks
Joe

I don't believe that on XP Home you can set the Administrator account to
have limited privileges. You need to create a new account for your user and
protect the Administrator account with a password. You can create as many
regular user accounts as you wish but there must be at least one account
with administrator privileges.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If the program installs to an area such as the user's profile then it will
work. You could try to tweak the NTFS permissions on the user's profile
folder to deny execute assuming it does not interfere with user's
functionality. Otherwise consider using XP Pro and implementing Software
Restriction Policies via Group Policy to manage what a user can run or
install on his computer. The free Windows SteadyState application may also
be able to do what you want using SRP in a limited degree and with many
other features. I have not tried this new version myself yet but it looks
very promising.

Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
-- Windows SteadySate