- Joined
- Jun 12, 2003
- Location
- Philly, PA
Hi everyone, I just landed a job at my school to admin a small lab in our library. (My school is really small and the “tech” department is short-staffed) The lab consists of 7 computers, all of Pentium 3 caliber with varying amounts of RAM and hard disk space. However there is a problem, when I first took over the lab I formatted the drives and installed Windows 2000 on all of the machines. The systems were great for a while but gradually the systems be came really gunked up with things people downloaded and documents which people saved to the hard drive. I tried to limit what people could do in windows by changing the accounts people logged on with to the most restricted setting. However this still allowed people to download things and install a lot of programs which do not go through the windows installer. People could also still access settings in the control panel, as well as the context menu on the desktop and in IE. Basically what I would like to do is modify the local user settings in such a way that people can't do the following things:
-No write access to the hard drive, read only
-No installation of programs
-Context menus in IE, the desktop, and explorer disabled
-Windows update disabled
-System tools disabled (defrag/scandisk etc.)
-Disable settings change in IE
-Desktop images disabled
-Disable Lock computer and change password when CTRL+ALT+DEL is pressed
-Disable Help, Search, Settings, Run, and Documents in the Start Menu
I'm really not that experienced in administrating any number of computers so I would be grateful for any information and guidance. Also if anyone could point out anything I missed it would be a big help.
Thanks,
xb-70
-No write access to the hard drive, read only
-No installation of programs
-Context menus in IE, the desktop, and explorer disabled
-Windows update disabled
-System tools disabled (defrag/scandisk etc.)
-Disable settings change in IE
-Desktop images disabled
-Disable Lock computer and change password when CTRL+ALT+DEL is pressed
-Disable Help, Search, Settings, Run, and Documents in the Start Menu
I'm really not that experienced in administrating any number of computers so I would be grateful for any information and guidance. Also if anyone could point out anything I missed it would be a big help.
Thanks,
xb-70