Re: Allowing only IE and nothing else - possible?

I haven't tried it in a long time but you used to be able to set
iexplore.exe as the shell rather than explorer.exe which caused only IE to
be run at logon, but you still had to use poledit or group policy (or local
policy) to lock down all the drives and programs you didn't want to be run,
the run command, etc...

If you search the web for more info, use the word "kiosk" as that's
typically the purpose for a machine that is locked down that tightly.

--
Mike Shepperd
MCSE NT4, 2000, 2003
NewFuture Consulting
Seattle, Washington


<nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What's the best way to lock down a user account so that only IE can be
> used and nothing else - and no files or folders, drives or context menus
> can be accessed or file dialogs or active x, etc components can gain
> access to any parts of my win2k system except through threat of torture
> whilst sitting behind the user? Anyone? And yes I'm serious. No jokes
> please...
>
> TIA
>


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