Anyone tell me how to restrict a user on Vista Business to only run one single program? I'm talking no control panel, no search, nothing except my program, log off, shutdown, and restart. Have basically gotten all programs taken off the start menu and am stuck. Need to disable the access to the user account and the search box.
Lock Down Vista Business
- Thread starter bcrafton
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Hi Bcrafton,
Checkout this website for registry guides to enable/disable anything in Windows...(click Security on right side) Windows Registry Guide - Registry tweaks and fixes for Windows systems
Steven
Checkout this website for registry guides to enable/disable anything in Windows...(click Security on right side) Windows Registry Guide - Registry tweaks and fixes for Windows systems
Steven
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JonMCC33
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No gpedit on vista business. I wish!!! I have gotten everything disabled and set how I want except there is still a link on the start menu for the user profile.
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SCSIraidGURU
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Group policy works best for this. You can also use NTFS security to lock the user out of areas. You can use the guest account rights. Only allow them access to that one folder and a location for data to be saved.
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z3r010
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Eeek! I'd encourage using Group Policy changes instead.
I would have recommended Group Policy but assumed Vista Business didnt have it either
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SCSIraidGURU
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You might need to belong to a domain to use it. You could change them to guest users with only rights to that app in their login.
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- pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
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JonMCC33
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GPEDIT? Use MMC and add the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in through that. Seems to work fine for me in Vista Business x64.
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- CPU
- Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.2GHz
- Motherboard
- Abit IP35-E @ 1600FSB
- Memory
- 4GB Hynix DDR2-800
- Graphics Card(s)
- PowerColor Radeon X1900XT
- Hard Drives
- (2) 320GB Seagate 7200.10