Securing the guest account

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Guest

Hi,

I have a guest account I need to lock up. I have managed to remove mostly
everything I don't want people to access however there's a loop-hole I want
to lock up.

When you 'right click' on the the start menu you can click on 'Explore'
which you then can access folders like Program Files etc, which I don't want
them to be able to run programs from.

Is there a way to disable the right mouse button or anything else you can
suggest to stop people from using this by-pass.


The Son of Jor-El
 
Son said:
Hi,

I have a guest account I need to lock up. I have managed to remove
mostly everything I don't want people to access however there's a
loop-hole I want to lock up.

When you 'right click' on the the start menu you can click on
'Explore' which you then can access folders like Program Files etc,
which I don't want them to be able to run programs from.

Is there a way to disable the right mouse button or anything else you
can suggest to stop people from using this by-pass.


The Son of Jor-El
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XP Pro or Home? If Pro, use the Group Policy Editor to restrict users as
desired. Start>Run>gpedit.msc [enter]

Be careful using the Group Policy Editor as it is completely possible to
lock yourself out. For questions regarding the GPE, you can post here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

For XP Home, see either Doug Knox's Security Console or the Microsoft
Shared Computer Toolkit:

http://www.dougknox.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Malke
 
Group Policy locally! Yes be careful ; - )




Malke said:
Son said:
Hi,

I have a guest account I need to lock up. I have managed to remove
mostly everything I don't want people to access however there's a
loop-hole I want to lock up.

When you 'right click' on the the start menu you can click on
'Explore' which you then can access folders like Program Files etc,
which I don't want them to be able to run programs from.

Is there a way to disable the right mouse button or anything else you
can suggest to stop people from using this by-pass.


The Son of Jor-El
Click to expand...

XP Pro or Home? If Pro, use the Group Policy Editor to restrict users as
desired. Start>Run>gpedit.msc [enter]

Be careful using the Group Policy Editor as it is completely possible to
lock yourself out. For questions regarding the GPE, you can post here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

For XP Home, see either Doug Knox's Security Console or the Microsoft
Shared Computer Toolkit:

http://www.dougknox.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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