Group policy queries. Newbie alert!

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My last post was about locking down a PC configuration for student use. I'm still wrestling with this problem, thanks in part to the horrors of gpedit.

So I'm the admin, and I think it'd be good to 'disable the notification area' etc etc. I reboot and sure enough, all the changes are applied on the admin account but not neccasarily on the standard user account. Some are, some aren't.

Basically, I want the swines to be able to access Firefox [default internet browser] off the start menu and absolutely nothing else. No right clicks on the taskbar or start menu, no access to tray items or the control panel etc. How hard can it be?

Any advice?

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was thinking about this for my son but...

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Can I install Windows® SteadyState™ on a 64-bit computer?


Windows SteadyState is designed to work on 32-bit computers only.

still might keep XP 32 as dual boot for the boy.
 
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I thought about deepfreeze a while back and downloaded the evaluation but got an error message on installation: 'deepfreeze doesn't support disks over 2TB', which is odd as my boot drive is 37GB and the other drive is 1TB. Doesn't instill a lot of confidence....

Anyway, after much arsing about I ran gpedit [as administrator] direct from the system32 folder of the standard user and applied the settings I need. Now all the settings remain - I couldn't figure why some changes only affected the admin acccount and some were universal.

I got hold of an app called anti-executable that creates a whitelist of allowed programs and denies the execution of all others. The swine have access to Firefox, and only firefox. Combined with drive access denial, the might of admuncher and Opendns - I think we should be OK.

Cheers for the replies!

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