Preventing users from running .exe directly

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mike_in_england2000

Hi - I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following problem
please....

I have a program - lets call it program.exe and I don't want users of
my system to run it directly - by double clicking on it or using the
command line.

I only want it to be run by the users via a launcher script I have
written - launcher.exe

Is this possible?

Thanks

Mike
 
For XP pro computers you could try using a path rule to disallow that
executable to run anywhere but from the directory you specify. Then you
could put the file in a folder that users do not have access to but give the
users explicit read/execute permissions to the file in the folder that they
can not access. The user could still run the file via traverse folder
permission which users have by default whether it is shown in folder
permissions or not if they know the location and specify the full path to
the file at the command line though most probably would not figure that
t. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/rstrplcy.mspx
--- XP Software Restriction Policies
 
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