Windows XP Home Lockdown

[Daniel Smith]

Is it possible to perform a lockdown an a windows home
based machine. I know it can be done on a Pro machine
using the group policy mmc snapin, but that doesnt exist
in the home edition. Ive just picked up a new site who
for some reason have 22 * windows XP home machines on a
network with a windows 2000 "server" (obviously no
domain) but sharing files etc.

They want some security and was wondering can i lock them
down or do i need to upgrade them all to XP Pro

Thanks

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You can ugrade them to Pro and use GPEDIT. Or you can see www.dougknox.com,
Win XP Utilities, Windows XP Security Console. Version 1.4 is currently
available, and version 2 is on its way with even more of the restriction
from GPEDIT.