Re: Software Restriction in XP Home

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sasquatchs wrote:
I'm trying to lock down a family computer running XP Home so that only
programs I specify are allowed to run. I know you can do this with
Group Policy in Professional, but after managing to install it to Home
the relevant settings aren't exposed anyway so thats a deadend.

Does anyone know of any decent utilities that duplicate this missing
functionality?

f you have XP Home, you can use MVP Doug Knox's Security Console or the MS Shared Computer Toolkit.

http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx
microsoft.public.windows.sharedaccess - Toolkit newsgroup


Malke
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