disable program installs under win2k

[Endymion]

i am setting up a computer that a lot of people are going to be using, i have made the login a guest one, so they have little priviledges, but they still seem to be able to install programs....how can i change this? i have the drive using ntfs

 

[Endymion]

arg

 

[Endymion]

i can never find anything helpful in the windows website.....

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

you cant really...you can disable registry editing, so that most installs wont finish, and most installs know they are in 2k and say "you must be a member of administrator group to install"

thats about it though...i mean what else does an install do, it runs itself, an executable, which obviously you cant disable running executables, and it copies and makes files, you could set the permissions so that they cant mess w/ winnt/system32 and all that, also program files/, other than that i dont know

 

[Endymion]

hmm, well i guess that will have to do then...

is there anything else i should do to keep people from messing with things?

 

[poppasp1ce]

Actually there is a way to disable installs. In the mmc there is a way to disable new software installations. Anyone that goes to a university knows the computer labs usually have this setup so people can't download stuff and install it on university computers (napster for instance). I don't know where exactly it is in the mmc but check there. When you try to install something it gives a message like, "You do not have sufficient priveliges blah blah."

I'm sorry, I assumed you meant under Windows2000. If its a 9X OS then you'll probably have to download an external administration program. I've seen them before, try download.com.

 

[Endymion]

yeah, i am using win2k professional