Set XP User Accounts to prevent access to certain programs

[Guest]

Hi,
I have Microsoft XP Home Edition. I was wondering if there was any way to
prevent the Guest account from having access to certain programs,
particularly Internet Explorer (6 with SP2). Since we have cable internet,
you don't need a password to get online...I basically want to prevent guest
users from having accessing to the Internet without blocking Administrator
users' privileges.
Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks.

 

[OShah]

Hi,
I have Microsoft XP Home Edition. I was wondering if there was any way
to prevent the Guest account from having access to certain programs,
particularly Internet Explorer (6 with SP2). Since we have cable
internet, you don't need a password to get online...I basically want to
prevent guest users from having accessing to the Internet without
blocking Administrator users' privileges.
Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks.

There are a few (unsupported, but then again, MS will never support
disabling IE) ways to disable Internet explorer, or its ability to browse
internet sites. There are 2 primary ways of disabling internet explorer:

1. Deny access (Group policy? ACLs? Addremove components) to the
iexplore.exe executable, or one of its DLLs.
OR
2. Set Internet explorer to download from a fake proxy.
OR
3. Make your internet connection a dialup one. You can make the broadband
connection a dialup style connection (without losing the speed). Just look
for PPPoE and RASPPPoE.


Even though GPedit/ACLs are not available on Windows XP Home Edition, you
can downlaod 3rd party tools to give you their functionality (Doug Knox'a
site).



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oshah [shexec32]
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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