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Windows XP User Premission Levels?

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wjsulliv

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I need to lock down some computers to be used in a classroom. The machines are running Windows XP.

What I would like to do is:
1) Limit the user (devious students) from saving anything anywhere except the 'Student' accounts "My Documents".
2) Lock them out of "My Computer", "Control Panel", screen settings and other file system viewing resources, etc.
3) Choose which programs are available to them (IE, and other educational software, etc.).

Is there a good online resourse to read? Can anybody walk me through this?
 
XP Pro.

How restricted is a limited account?

I don't want them to be able to install anything (or for any virus to be able to install anything), but I do want them to be able to surf the net and use the preinstalled/preapproved programs.
 
A limited user would be able to modify their own environment (Registry, Application Data, Desktop, etc.) but nothing global. If that will still cause a mess, maybe keep a copy of a clean Docs and Settings folder and the HKLU Registry entries, and restore those with a script nightly.

If that's still too much, which seems rather extreme, there are commercial programs out there like Foolproof, but they're 1) expensive and 2) prone to destroying everything over time, since they operate at such a low level.
 
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