Limiting user access in Windows 2000

[Jeeebus]

My wife teaches high school math, and they have a bunch of older Dell laptops running Win 2000 that she uses in class with her students. The problem is, half of them don't work, and the other half, as I found out last night, were dreadfully horrifically slow. Took one of them home last night, and found more spyware on it than I cared to find. It runs at a decent clip now.

Question: What can be done to stop the little bastages from (a) downloading anything onto the computer and (b) limiting the websites that they can get to?

Thanks.

 

[Madwand1]

For (a), remove administrative access from the accounts used to logon normally.

 

[ojai00]

If you know which sites they visit, you can probably edit the HOSTS file to point to website to localhost or 127.0.0.1. The other way would be to set up a proxy server but that will be more work.

 

[Jeeebus]

thanks for the tips. Will try out on the test laptop tonite.