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Is there a script available that i can use to modify group policy settings on a standalone windows xp machine?

 

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March 3 4:05 PM (1 hour and 3 minutes and 39 seconds later)
         

Hi Customer (name blocked for privacy),

What kind of changes you want to make ?

Regards,

Krish



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March 3 4:25 PM (20 minutes and 17 seconds later)
         
disable task manager
disable run command
disable desktop
remove all desktop icons
remove all programs option from the start menu
disable change home page (internet explorer)
disable tools>internet options (internet explorer)
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March 3 4:29 PM (3 minutes and 50 seconds later)
         
Do you want to do this so that another user cannot make any changes to your computer ? Because in that case you can simply add a User account and give Guest rights to it.

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March 3 4:40 PM (10 minutes and 28 seconds later)
         
yeah i know that, but i also want to hide the options so even when the limited user is logged in they don't see much other than the internet explorer. I need this in a script so i can easily apply this to our standalone machines in the lobby or even give it to one of the other lower level techs to do.
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March 3 5:21 PM (41 minutes later)
         

Hi Customer (name blocked for privacy),

If the computer has XP home edition then we wont be able to build a standalone computer.



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March 3 5:23 PM (2 minutes and 32 seconds later)
         
i knew that too. They are all xp pro. I know how to manually put these options using the group policy editor but i am just looking for a script to do it.
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March 3 6:57 PM (1 hour and 33 minutes and 39 seconds later)
         

Thank you for choosing Just Answer!

Are you familiar using KIX scripting - running KIX32.exe in a command line to run a *.kix FILE? This would give you exactly what you want to do. All items would be disabled at the registry level, and you could edit / tweak the KIX file as needed to meet future needs.

I can write the KIX file for you if you'd like, but don't want to assume you don't all ready know how, and that you just needed the tool to work with. Let me know.

Thank you for your time - Neil



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March 3 7:28 PM (31 minutes and 14 seconds later)
         
no, i am not familiar with KIX scripting. However, if it can be done that way i would love to get it done. send me a sample script. let me see.
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March 3 7:47 PM (19 minutes and 5 seconds later)
         

Thanks for the note.

OK - I'm wrapping up another project, but I'll get this done and shoot it to you later on.

Neil



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March 3 8:58 PM (1 hour and 11 minutes and 11 seconds later)
         
ok
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March 3 10:09 PM (1 hour and 11 minutes and 5 seconds later)
         

Hello again,

I am posting this as a "need info", as I don't want the question to close on us while we work it out, and I don't want to take credit away from Krish for trying to help to begin with.

This is the SAMPLE FILE for you to look at. There is a README!.TXT file showing where the files can be copied to function.

This sample performs the following when run:

- Hides all Desktop Icons

- Disables Task Manager

- Disables Right-Click Properties on Desktop

- Disables assorted Advanced internet options

- Disables use of the Control Panel

- Disables access to the Display Properties

Please look through the README file, give it a shot and see what you think so far. AS a note, if you run this on your machine and restart windows, all of your icons will be gone - to restore them, run the command for the UNDO file, restart windows and everything will be back to normal.

Please give me some more specifics on what you would like it to accomplish - then we can wrap this up and close the question when you're happy.

Thank you for your time - Neil



Edited by Neil Armani on March 4 2008 at 1:23 AM

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March 4 5:11 PM (19 hours and 1 minute and 18 seconds later)
         

Hello again,

Can you please let me know what you think so far? If you like the limitations it shows now, I'd like to finish up exactly what you need, test it with you, then hopefully close this out with an ACCEPT.

Thank you for your time - Neil



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March 5 5:49 PM (1 day later)
         
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March 6 8:50 AM (15 hours and 50 seconds later)
         
Perfect. This is exactly what i needed. I was looking for a way to accept the answer but i guess you have to do something else.

Krish didn't really do anything for me. He only keep asking me stupid questions, so you can leave him out.

I wanted to ask another question, and let me know if i have to open another thread. If so, i can also do that. Do you know of a way to auto add approve urls to the content advisor in internet explorer.
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March 6 9:43 AM (53 minutes and 37 seconds later)
         
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March 6 9:20 PM (11 hours and 36 minutes and 46 seconds later)
         
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Hello again,

Two quick things;

First, please ACCEPT my answer above (or this one) - and FEEDBACK is always appreciated for the first scripts:-)

Second, after fighting with it for a while, I have the script to add entries into your Content Advisor listing with either DENY or ALLOW privileges. We can handle this either way - I can send you the schematic of what I have with some instructions on how to edit the file to add / remove entries; or you can open a new question (requesting me), give me all of the sites you want included, whether they are ALLOWED or DENIED and I'll generate the script for you.

It's a little monster - but if you're halfway decent at writing code, you could do it yourself if you wanted ... but I will be happy to if you want to post a new question for this one.

Let me know - Neil



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March 9 1:30 AM (5 hours and 34 minutes and 11 seconds later)
         
Reply to Neil Armani's Post: Ok. I accepted your answer. They should have sent you the money i had in my account. You can simple send me some sample sites to be allowed for the content advisor.

I just need to set the content advisor to allow above 5 websites and deny all others. As long as i see some sample codes i generally can take it from there.

Sorry, sometimes it takes me a while to get back online but i should be infront of the computer for sometime now.
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March 9 5:41 AM (4 hours and 11 minutes and 23 seconds later)
         

Hello - Thank you for the accept, I appreciate it.

Here is the sample for two sites. I added two comment lines that need to be addressed per site number, then you'll see where the site.com and http entries go.

Any questions - please ask! Also, these run the same as the other files with the Kix32.exe command line.

Files

Thank you for your time - Neil



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