Re: Locking down XP for WMP-only usage

From: dsmcd (dsmcd_at_stopspamdormouse.net)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:07:28 GMT

Hello...

The skin gets us album art, track listings, large
user-friendly controls, customized graphics, etc. And,
maybe a fun easter egg or two.

Thank you for the links. They look very useful.

Any suggestions for retail-hardening the XP operating
system itself?

Thx,
D.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <mrxp2004@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:
>What is the reasoning behind using a computer which will
>be solely
>used for playing musical CDs? Why not use a conventional
>CD player?
>
>Visit the "Official" Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
>news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player
>
>Windows Media Player FAQ
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx
>
>Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ (Excellent Site!)
>http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html
>
>Windows Media Player Support Center
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp
>
>--
>Carey Frisch
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows XP - Shell/User
>
>Be Smart! Protect your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>"dsmcd" <dsmcd@stopspamdormouse.net> wrote in message:
> news:z33Ac.45$W%4.69949@news.uswest.net...
>
>| Hello...
>|
>| I'll be running XP machines in retail environment for
>| customers to use. The stations will ONLY run a skinned
>| Windows Media Player. Only music CDs will be played - no
>| DVDs or non-music files from any CD.
>|
>| I need to lock these stations down as much as possible
>to
>| avoid un-graceful behaviour from 'unexpected' events.
>|
>| There's 2 things I'm looking for:
>| 1) Nothing except music files responded to by XP or WMP.
>If
>| a DVD, or a software disk or anything else is inserted
>by
>| mistake, I don't want XP or WMP to do anything at all.
>| 2) An XP setup that will prevent all unexpected prompts,
>| balloons and reminders, etc., from XP and WMP.
>|
>| I'm familiar with the registry and group policies and
>| utilities such as Tweak Manager and Tweaking Toolbox XP,
>| but I'm pretty sure there are some events not covered by
>| anything I've found so far.
>|
>| Particularly troublesome is preventing a response when a
>| music CD has features such as shockwave or movie files,
>or
>| when a movie DVD or software disk is inserted by
>mistake. I
>| need XP and WMP to only respond to music files.
>|
>| Any suggestions?
>|
>| Thanks in advance,
>| D.
>|

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