Administrator ability to deny User acess to software programes?

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Greetings.

I note a lot of the queries in this forum are wanting increased access by
Users to programes installed by either the Administrator. What I am wanting
to know is how to restrict access to installed programmes (that I have
installed) to certain users? ie Children or generally nosey parkers.

The System is XP Home SP 2.

The option does not seem to be available to restrict access during the
install to particular users only, such as ADMIN only....

Iis there a way to retofit acess permissions or even that matter the ability
to see a programe within a Users account?

Thanks in anticipation
 
You can do this with filesystem-permissions, however I don't think XP Home
will allow you to make the necessary adjustments. The permissions exist,
provided it's an NTFS disk, it's just that XP Home has no controls for
setting them.
 
Perry said:
Greetings.

I note a lot of the queries in this forum are wanting increased access by
Users to programes installed by either the Administrator. What I am wanting
to know is how to restrict access to installed programmes (that I have
installed) to certain users? ie Children or generally nosey parkers.

The System is XP Home SP 2.

The option does not seem to be available to restrict access during the
install to particular users only, such as ADMIN only....

Iis there a way to retofit acess permissions or even that matter the ability
to see a programe within a Users account?

Thanks in anticipation
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HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and
Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308419


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Ian said:
You can do this with filesystem-permissions, however I don't think XP Home
will allow you to make the necessary adjustments. The permissions exist,
provided it's an NTFS disk, it's just that XP Home has no controls for
setting them.
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Actually, that's not entirely true; it's just a little hard to do in
WinXP Home. Rebooting into Safe Mode allows the WinXP Home user the
ability to set pretty much all of the same permissions as WinXP Pro in
normal mode. Further, there are 3rd party tools available to help. For
instance:

Windows® XP Security Console
Version 1.4 - 10/26/2003
Copyright 2003 - Doug Knox
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm


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In addition to the replies that suggest modifying NTFS permissions which is
a great idea you may want to take a look at the free Shared Computer Toolkit
from Microsoft that requires that you have SP2 installed. It uses
technologies usually not available in XP Home such as limited Group Policy
and Software Restriction Policies to lockdown a user account while not
interfering with what administrators or other users can do. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/overview.mspx --- Shared
Computer Toolkit
 
Many thanks to Ian, Bruce and Steven for your prompt responses. It will take
me a little while to try each method and I may come back to this thread in a
day or so if I come up against a wall.

Cheers

Perry
 
Steven said:
In addition to the replies that suggest modifying NTFS permissions which is
a great idea you may want to take a look at the free Shared Computer Toolkit
from Microsoft that requires that you have SP2 installed. It uses
technologies usually not available in XP Home such as limited Group Policy
and Software Restriction Policies to lockdown a user account while not
interfering with what administrators or other users can do. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/overview.mspx --- Shared
Computer Toolkit
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I'd forgotten about that tool. Thanks for covering my omission.

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SNIP
HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and
Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308419
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Bruce: I ran across the above reply when searching for "set file
permissions": How can I set permissions programatically using either
windows scripting or C++

eg: I want to make a script (or file on a local computer) read only for
"Authenticated User" and read/write for a certain administrator.

I can easly do this by right clicking on the script and selecting the
security tab. I have had trouible even finding this topic under platform
sdk, msdn and .net 1.1

...thanks..
 
Beemer said:
SNIP

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and
Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308419
Click to expand...


Bruce: I ran across the above reply when searching for "set file
permissions": How can I set permissions programatically using either
windows scripting or C++

eg: I want to make a script (or file on a local computer) read only for
"Authenticated User" and read/write for a certain administrator.

I can easly do this by right clicking on the script and selecting the
security tab. I have had trouible even finding this topic under platform
sdk, msdn and .net 1.1

..thanks..
Click to expand...


Look into CACLS.EXE /?

For more detailed scripting advice, you'll have to seek out a scripting
newsgroup. I do very little scripting, myself.

Script Center
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx


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