Creating very limited guest user

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I need to make the guest user only able to use music players. And to disable
their ability to change or modify any files.

I am using Windows XP Home Edition.
 
I don't use xp home but I do use XP pro. I heard xp home can do what I
describe for changing security also from explorer.

make an ID belonging to guests group, say guest1.
furthermore, you tighten security on the system, changing permission to none
for guest except list folder content on c:\program files, no execute. of
course you leave guest1 home access alone.
you will have to find out what is required for the music players and make
them read and execute for guest1


I usually allow only administrators to modify program files, windows. there
are times I allow some power users to add to program files but not modify.

For data files, I usually setup up access groups, only users in the access
groups can read, change the content of the corresponding folders
 
musicman said:
I need to make the guest user only able to use music players. And to
disable their ability to change or modify any files.

I am using Windows XP Home Edition.
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Do not use the Guest account you see in the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel. It is not there for when you are feeling hospitable. It
allows someone without a user account on the local system to log on and
do some work. It runs with elevated privileges which is why it is a
security hole and normally disabled. It will not do what you want.

Create a new user account and call it something like "Visitor". Make it
a Limited account. Since you have XP Home, you don't have the built-in
ability to create the limitations you would like. Use either MVP Doug
Knox's Security Console or the MS Shared Computer Toolkit to set the
restrictions the way you want.

http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Malke
 
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