I manage a small business network, and my users need a few icons in
the quicklaunch bar, but some keep adding ones which cannot go there.
I disabled right clicking to help with some other mischeif but I
noticed this did not stop them from adding to the QuickLaunch bar.
The users are and must be Local admins to use the programs their job
requires. Because of this NTFS permissions are not an option unless
there is a reg setting to disable altering ntfs permissions. What I
want basically is a reg key that tells the windows GUI shell to ignore
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Request for Question Clarification by
livioflores-ga
on
07 Apr 2005 22:17 PDT
Can you restrict access to an specific folder? If this is the case why
not restric access to the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Quick Launch
May be by right click on it and making it a private folder from the
Share and Security option or using a third party program or by other
way.
If this advice is in the right way, please let me know in order to
post it in the answer box and, if you need it, look for further
explanations and/or documentation.
Regards.
livioflores-ga
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Clarification of Question by
nosupport-ga
on
07 Apr 2005 23:36 PDT
Actually, this is what I meant by NTFS permissions. I could deny
access to add to or modify that folder, but the culprits of mischeif
know about NTFS, and since they are logged in as Administrator, there
would be nothing NTFS could do for me that it couldn't undo for them.
I must applaud, however your expediency in finding my question. It'd
been posted for less than an hour, and around midnight at that! I
have another pending question out there that I just raised to 50
bucks. It would render this one needless. In it, I asked how to
"disable" setting file attributes and NTFS permissions through the
registry. As with this question, I'm not referring to NTFS
permissions. All I really want is to modify the behavior of the
windows shell, in both these questions. There are applications which
need to be able to run as the user and do the things i dont want the
user to do. But only the application should be able to do it. Not
the user with too much free time...
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Request for Question Clarification by
livioflores-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 07:18 PDT
Another suggestion (I do not know if its works even if it is
possible), what happens if you delete all the quicklaunch folders and
toolbars and create a new toolbar which related folder is located in
the server, and make that folder a private one (only read), I think
that it could work.
Regards.
livioflores-ga
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Clarification of Question by
nosupport-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 09:07 PDT
Interesting idea, but one of the quicklaunch programs is one I wrote
to take a snapshot of the computer when its acting up. The idea is if
the user things the computer is broken they click it. It takes about
a hundred different observations, and writes them to files I can read
later. If it were on a network and the problems network related, the
whole program would be unreachable. Interesting idea though. But
these computers have to run completely on their own if the network is
not avialiable. (They are used to perform medical procedures at a
hospital so thats why I want to keep them so reliable, and keep the
users from modifying things.)
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