Win98 system policy to lock start menu shortcuts

[Dave Niemeyer]

I know this is not a group policy question, sorry, but there's no "system
policy" NG here.

I need to LOCK the START MENU shortcuts, all of them, on windows 98. I've
always used either system policies or NTFS file permissions to lock
everything in NT and group policy on 2000. Don't know how to lock this down
in 98. I don't
want students renaming, moving, or changing the properties of any of the
startmenu items. I've already tried setting the "read only" property and
all that does is politely ask you if you still want to rename the read-only
item, still letting you rename it.

I'm using the 98 system policies to hide everything on the 98 desktops, I
can
lock that successfully and can even hide the Control Panel with these
policies, and the policies even SAY there's a place to lock the startmenu
and I have checked that but apparently it's not working or is disabled with
some unknown other policy setting which I don't see. I'm now using the
following .adm templates: Windows, common, and shellm.

Anybody got an idea how to do this? Other policy? Tweakui? Other ideas?
Has anyone else gotten the policy, as stated above, to work?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Dave Niemeyer
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[Cleve S.]

Dave,

If they're in a domain you can make a mandatory roaming profile. It won't
prevent users's from changing things, but when the log back on everything
will back to normal. I used to do this when I had shared logons & 98
workstations.

Cleve S.

 

[Dave Niemeyer]

I fixed it. A problem in the shellm.adm file prevented the correct registry
entries, fixed it per a KB article, specifically addressing the lack of
start menu lockdown, fixed after slightly modifying the adm file from within
notepad. Simple. . Works great now.

Dave N
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