Desktop Lockdown

Any idea(s) i can use to lockdown an xp machines desktop...from users changing startmenu, wallpapers..etc. I'm currently taking care of a lab that consist of 30 xp machines and its getting very very tiring standardizing em... Oh and they're all...




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#136182 - 02/10/04 08:27 AM Desktop Lockdown
Sakirik Offline
journeyman

Registered: 03/21/02
Posts: 17
Any idea(s) i can use to lockdown an xp machines desktop...from users changing startmenu, wallpapers..etc. I'm currently taking care of a lab that consist of 30 xp machines and its getting very very tiring standardizing em... Oh and they're all standalones

thank you in advance

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#136185 - 02/10/04 09:35 AM Re: Desktop Lockdown
SomeDude Offline
stranger

Registered: 01/30/04
Posts: 4
I would that think running gpedit.msc (group policy editor) would get you access to the items you need to make those changes...


:x

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#136186 - 02/10/04 11:22 AM Re: Desktop Lockdown
Brian Frank Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 01/21/01
Posts: 3088
Yes, that's one way to do it. Very handy.

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#136207 - 02/11/04 12:02 AM Re: Desktop Lockdown
Sakirik Offline
journeyman

Registered: 03/21/02
Posts: 17
thanks guys.... i did use gpedit to do some of the things i wanted. For ex. preventing wallpaper and disabling or removing the display icon in control panel. But still when a student saves a pic (whether jpeg or bitmap), lets say from the internet into the pc. He/she can still make it as the background eventhough i disable things under gpedit to prevent such thing from happening. Another question, is there a way to secure icons that i set up on the desktop so they can't be deleted. Or if deleted then would still be there when user logs off and logs in again. I hope i'm making sense and thank you guys very much for helping....

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#136209 - 02/11/04 12:24 AM Re: Desktop Lockdown
madacgrav Offline
newbie

Registered: 01/26/04
Posts: 37
you can set a manadatory profile, where they can change what they want but it won't save from log in to log in.

Rename the ntuser.dat file to ntuser.man

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#138024 - 04/21/04 06:06 AM Re: Desktop Lockdown
Sakirik Offline
journeyman

Registered: 03/21/02
Posts: 17
Alright, i tried renaming the ntuser.....i follow some guides i got off xp tweak...about mandatory profile on local machines. Some of the hold backs i got from doing this....is that i got two notification window about logging me in on a temporary profile...it did mention about no changes will occur after log off. Trying to find a way to get rid of the two messages.

Before and and even after i doing this. I can't seem to figure out how to keep my configuration plus home page on IE. Any ideas are greatly appreciated...

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