Re: Restrict Wireless to default signal?
- From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 01:52:09 -0400
Log into the user's account and click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Network Connections
If any of the sub keys under Policies, Microsoft, Windows does not exist, right click in a blank area of the right pane and select New, Key and add the key. Continue until you have the Network Connection branch created.
Highlight the Network Connections branch. Right click in a blank area of the right pane and select New, DWord value. Name this new value NC_LanProperties. Leave this value set at 0. Now, repeat this step, but name the new DWord value NC_EnableAdminProhibits. Double click this new value and set it to 1.
If you don't have direct access to the user's account, see www.dougknox.com, Win XP Tips, Advanced Registry Editing for information on how to change the Registry without logging into the user account.
Note: Non-administrators don't have access to LAN connection properties anyway. Consider downgrading them to a Limited User.
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"arobustus" <arobustus.28ks8b@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:arobustus.28ks8b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello all,
What I would like to be able to do is confine my daughter's laptop to
the default signal, with the ability to turn this restriction on and
off restricted by password. If I could do this, I could control
Internet access from the router. Is there some way to do this in
windows, using the registry or standard settings? In my case, if I
could use the registry I could get away without a password. Failing
that, is there third party software that does it?
Sometimes a temporary block on favorite and time consuming sites is
enough to speed completion of a school project. Sometimes an Internet
"grounding" is more in order. However, any savvy teenager can
circumvent such by linking to a different wireless signal.
I'm sure I am not the only parent who has run up against this. In fact,
I ran down a long thread on this issue in Broadband Reports. The best
anyone could come up with was to chase down all your neighbors who have
unprotected wireless outlets and prevail upon them to set up encryption.
However, this can be problematic, especially if the neighbor happens to
be Starbucks.
Thank You!
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arobustus
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