Multi User Shell(HKH)

[Hkh]

Hi
does anybody know how to have each user running a
different explorer shell at logon?


In other words,
I would like to have 2 different users, let's
say "normalUser" and "administrator". If I logon
as 'normalUser' I would like XPE to automatically run Explorer Shell
with some menus, such as
1)All Programs
2)Setting

but can not run some applications such as
1)ewfmgr.exe.
2)control panel

If I logon as 'administrator' I would like to
see the normal explorer shell interface and change all setting in
system

Thank in advance for your help,


Ugo

 

[KM]

Check out this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/tchDifferentShellsForDifferentUsers.asp

Also, XPe documentation and this NG archive have lots of different sample and instructions on how to set up different shells in your
image.

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Regards,
KM

 

[Hkh]

KM
thanks you for your help
i checked out msdn link
but i want to create to explorer shell for users , one for
Administrator and another for other users as users can not view control
panel and use right click and ewfmgr.exe and so..
but administrator have full access to system.
Also i can not find NG archive and samples

thanks you for your help

HKH

 

[KM]

HKH,

NG archive: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8


Not sure I understand what you're asking an advice for.
You can set up different shells for different users on your system and to do that you can just follow the approach with setting up
"Shell" values in registry (see the Sean's article).

What specifically you create for the shell is up to you. It could be any Win32 applications (assuming all app dependencies are in
the image).

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Regards,
KM

 

[Hkh]

KM
I want to achieve a different GUI for user and for an
admin. Is there a way to do this?? For example..have a
fully loaded start menu for admin and a bre minimum for
user with limited running some application..
thanks

 

[KM]

Hkh,

Did you read the article I sent you the link for earlier?

If you set up [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon],"Shell" value for each user you can launch any GUI shell
app. (please note the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry branch used - it is per user!).

In other words, you can set up to launch Explorer shell for Admin user. And for regular user(s) you can have any other app launched
as shell.

If acceptable, as the user shell app you can even launch Explorer too but restrict the Explorer Shell UI with user and explorer
policies.

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Regards,
KM

 

[Hkh]

KM

thanks for your help
I reda the article you sent to me.
I want launch Explorer shell for regular Users(s) but i can not
restrict Explorer shell UI with explorer policies

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Regards,
HKH

 

[KM]

Hkh,

Ok. Now it is a bit more clear. At least we know you want to use Explorer Shell for both type of users.

Why can't you restrict the Explorer Shell UI?
What exactly you couldn't restrict?

If you want to prohibit user access to Control panel just set [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer],
"NoControlPanel"=dword:1 registry value in that particular user account's registry branch.

Assuming you've got ewfmgr.exe under c:\Windows\system32 directory, you can hide the entire system drive than with
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer],"NoDrive"=dword value. Just set it up properly (search google or
msdn for proper values of this key) to hide the C: drive.
If you still need the user to access some data files you can create another partition on your target device storage and mount it
with D: or else drive letter. User will have access to it.

The above is just an example of what you can accomplish playing with NT/XP group policies. You can certainly do much more then that.
Just get familiar with the various policies.

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Regards,
KM

 

[Hkh]

Thank you KM!
I'll try it.
Thank you again