Restrict Users 1

[keune76]

Hi Gurus!

Is there a way for me to restrict users from accessing the control panel and editing the internet options on IE6?

Our company doesn't use active directory and currently we are only using a workgroup and no domain. The operating system we use are Win 2K SP4 and Windows XP SP2.

I hope somebody could help me with this one.

Many thanks!

Keune

 

[Eguy]

Keune;

Control Panel opens an applet for each .CPL file it finds in the %systemroot%\system32 folder. You can remove an applet for everyone by deleting the file (or simply changing the extension to something other than .CPL). Finer grain control is possible under NTFS by restricting read access to the particular .CPL file to certain groups.

To restrict access to the Internet Explorer applet, the file you want to remove/rename is inetcpl.cpl.

Ed


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[tlindsay42]

I have a similar setup, but only use 2K SP4. In Group Policy of the MMC, which you can get to by Start>Run>MMC, under User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Control Panel>Hide Specified Control Panel Applets, if you enable the rule and specify Internet Options, that should do it.

Thanks,
-Big T

 

[keune76]

Thanks for your help Gurus! will try it out.