Re: locking XP from the little brats

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Sadly there are any number of ways around some of the restrictions.

1) Rotate the display. Keyboart hot-key shortcut that is actually tied to the driver/systray applet for the video adapter.
2) Change wallpaper. Even if Display Properties are disabled, and they can't edit the Registry, here comes Internet Explorer to the rescue with its "set as background" option when right clicking on a graphic. This one in particular completely ignores any group policy restrictions.

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"JS" <@> wrote in message news:u4Wf2ud2HHA.4584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It would seem that this tool should be a good test for the K-5 group, if they should break through Doug's tool and munge the system again Doug needs to do some updating.

JS :-)

"Kelly" <kelly@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ukjmQnd2HHA.3640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Ike,

See Doug's Security Console:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Ike" <lkjl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e1Antid2HHA.3760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I help an elemantry school K-5 with the computer lab they have which has 32 XP Home computers that are part of workgroup.

They do not have enough money for full time administrator or administrative software or even central domain administration. so I have to work with whatever free time I have to help.

some kid(s) keep rotating the screen, change the wallpaper, install programs, and change settings.

I added a guest account, the onlyway they can login is thrue the guest account, administrator accounts are locked with password changed frequently.

I disabled right click. locked the control panel, and no display settings. the little creeps still managed to get around it.

my question is does anyone know how could they do that.

second question is there anyway I can prevent them from changing anything on the computer or reset any changes after logging off.

Thanks
Ike







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