Disable Windows 2000 Help

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I have a kiosk machine that is heavily secured with Group Policies. The guest
users have only two icons on the desktop for the two programs we allow them
access to. The problem is that they can press the F1 key and access Windows
Help. It's not a big deal really except they can run Windows Explorer from
within help.

Is there a way to disable Windows 2000 help? It's really easy to remove it
from the start menu and stuff but can I do something drastic like simply
delete the files that Help uses? I'm assuming the self healing feature of
Windows 2000 may prevent this so is there away around that too?
 
Offhand I don't know the solution but what I would do is to run the free
utility filemon from SysInternals to see what files are accessed to invoke
help when the user tries to access help and try changing ntfs permissions to
deny the user access to the file or files to see if that works. If you
happen to have any XP computer you will find that Microsoft has a free tool
called the Shared Computer Toolkit to lockdown kiosk type computers and it
takes advantage of Software Restriction Policies in XP [even for XP
me]. ---Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html --- Filemon
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx --- XP Shared
Computer Toolkit info.
 
That's a great suggestion to use Filemon. I don't know why I didn't think of
that before. I'll do that and post the results here. Thanks for your help.

Steven L Umbach said:
Offhand I don't know the solution but what I would do is to run the free
utility filemon from SysInternals to see what files are accessed to invoke
help when the user tries to access help and try changing ntfs permissions to
deny the user access to the file or files to see if that works. If you
happen to have any XP computer you will find that Microsoft has a free tool
called the Shared Computer Toolkit to lockdown kiosk type computers and it
takes advantage of Software Restriction Policies in XP [even for XP
me]. ---Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html --- Filemon
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx --- XP Shared
Computer Toolkit info.

BlenderStyle said:
I have a kiosk machine that is heavily secured with Group Policies. The
guest
users have only two icons on the desktop for the two programs we allow
them
access to. The problem is that they can press the F1 key and access
Windows
Help. It's not a big deal really except they can run Windows Explorer from
within help.

Is there a way to disable Windows 2000 help? It's really easy to remove it
from the start menu and stuff but can I do something drastic like simply
delete the files that Help uses? I'm assuming the self healing feature of
Windows 2000 may prevent this so is there away around that too?
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