>Hi All,
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>dose any one know about how to restric the users on windows 98 so the desktop to be desable some icones and programs or form the menu bar it self.
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>thanks.
>
>Hisham

You can get security programs that "lay" on top of the windows desktop which allow you to restrict access in win98. In Windows NT 4.0 SP4 you can do something like below. It may be possible to do something similar in win98.

1.Log on the system using an administrator account
2.Start the Windows NT User Manager
3.Select User | New Local Group to create a new local group, give this group the name 4.Operators and press OK to save the group settings
5.Select User | New User to create a new user, enter an user name
6.Uncheck "User Must Change Password At Next Logon", check "User Cannot Change Password" and "Password Never Expires"
7.Click on "Groups"
8.Remove the "Users" group and add the "Operators" group to the user
9.Close the User Manager application
10.Select Start | Shutdown
11.Choose "Close All Programs And Log On As A Different User"
12.Log on as the new user, this will force Windows NT to create a directory with the default settings for this new user
13.Choose "Close All Programs And Log On As A Different User"
14.Log on the system using an administrator account
15.Select Start | Run
16.Enter "Regedt32" and press OK
17.Open the "HKEY_USERS on Local Machine" window from the window list
18.Select "HKEY_USERS"
19.Select Registry | Load Hive from the menu
20.Select the file "NTUSER.DAT" from the profile directory of the newly created user.
21.Enter as hive name "NTUSER"
22.Open the "NTUSER" folder
23.Open the "Software" folder
24.Open the "Microsoft" folder
25.Open the "Windows" folder
26.Open the "CurrentVersion" folder
27.Open the "Policies" folder
28.Open the "Explorer" folder
29.Select Edit | Add Value from the menu and add one or more of the following items to disable or enable specific functionality. All entries use the datatype REG_DWORD and should have a value of 1 (one):
30.To disable the shutdown button
.Name:NoClose
31.To disable the desktop icons
Name:NoDesktop
32.To disable the Find menu
Name:NoFind
33.To disable the logoff button on the Windows NT Security Dialog:
Name:NoLogoff
34.To disable the RUN menu:
Name:NoRun
35.To disable the control panel:
Name:NoSetFolders
36.To disable the taskbar
Name:NoSetTaskbar
37.To disable the tray context menu
Name:NoTrayContextMenu
38.To disable the window context menu
Name:NoViewContextMenu
39.Once all settings are entered or modified as desired select the ‘NTUSER’ folder.
40.Select Registry | Unload Hive from the menu
41.Select Registry | Exit from the menu to exit REGEDT32
42.Select Start | Shutdown to logoff as administrative user
43.Logon as the new user with disabled functions