Locking Down PC's

[sgscit]

Hi PPL's

We have a number of W2k & XP PC's running legacy (DOS & 9x) apps such as CivilCAD.

To get these apps to run, we need to give the users Admin access as any lesser access just fails and waffles on about privilages.

Does anyone out there know a way to get these apps to run on standard user access?

We have the issue where users are messing up thier machines installing hardware and software and corrupting system files.

If I lock down the registry & system files, then they are no longer able to access the files to access get to the old apps - frustrating.

Thanks for any help I can get.

Pete

 

[kweh4]

Use group policies to define an environment that will meet the users need and not their wants. Apply that policy to the computer. Secondly, you might want to consider moving to a version of the software that might solve this problem. This is what Microsoft has recommended.

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Computer Engineering Technology