Hi, maybe you can help me with this:
How to prevent the user from changing system date and time, by blocking access to the date/time windows interface on windows xp
#1 is the easiest and in most situations effective.
In the XP Forum, do a keyword search, "date", and select a search option on the thread subject only. There are some quite clever suggestions posed to handle this problem.
Not sure what to really tell you other than the fact that TweakUI is a very useful powertool (Microsoft designed) that's been around for many versions. I make sure it's on machines that I work with as a habit. It essentially lets you "tweak" a lot of different areas on the machine. I'd advise you to download it and test it on a machine...get familiar with it. It's totally safe. However, you may also want to give serious consideration to the Group Policy solutions suggested by bcastner.
If either, and the filestore is NTFS, setting registry control on the control panel applet will work. (If XP Home, you need to logon as Administator in Safe Mode).
While it can be worked around with the RUN service, or through the Control Panel, linney, myself and others have written a fairly comprehensive guide to killing user access to date/time in the XP forum.
Do a keyword search on "date" and click the button to search "subject lines".
If you apply all the security measure suggested in the links yo will discover, nobody but the Administrator will be able to set the date/time.
I should note that in the more benign cases of the fixes, it seemingly appears that a change is possible. But it is not persistent between logons. In the more extreme cases no change would be possible, even with XP Home.
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