Restrict Users from Launching Apps in XP

This tweak is a great way to keep certain users on the system from launching certain apps. For example, your kid shouldn't be launching AIM since he got caught abusing it last week. Or you've got a community computer and you don't trust certain folks to leave your settings alone in Photoshop. Whatever your reasoning, wouldn't it be nice to know that Joe and Bob can't launch that app, even when you wander off?

Check out this WinGuides article for the steps. Make sure you read it carefully, as it relates to making both key and value registry edits. And never, ever edit your registry without making a nice backup first!

Keep in mind that this tweak will only apply to the current user logged in as you perform the tweak, which can be quite inconvenient if you're working on the down low or don't know their user/pass. As long as you're an admin, check out Daniel Petri's page for a tutorial on editing the registry for other users.

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Comments

[bryan]

G4 has always been like an advertising company. everthing they touch has ads on it, or anoying pop-ups. even on the screensavers website; this blows like a 747 jet engine!

[EJ]

If you guys are haveign problmes w/ a corp network.peacefire.org

[alex]

As long as everyone is bashing G4 I might as well get in on it. I have to admit that I'd only gotten TechTV for a week about a month before the merger, so I didn't get to know it too well. (G4 and G4TechTV are on the next lowest tier.) BUT I really watched it a lot. I don't understand why G4 had to drop all the TechTV shows. I think they have fewer than 10 series (TSS included) anyway. The rest is all reruns. And nobody wants to watch stupid shows like Sweat or Players, especially when they're 6 months old.

OK I feel better now.

P.S. Bring back Leo and Cat and Call for Help. I learned more about computers in that week than in the rest of my life!

[keith]

I aggree the G4 stuff needs to be downsized and Screensavers/TechTV needs to be brought back, some one needs to rethink this merger!!!

[Randy]

I am sure no one at Comcast is going to listen but add one more voice of discontent over the merger of TechTV and G4...it sucks.

[Tom]

I'm a gamer & i hate G4. It's so lame that there moving you to LA.

[D-Knight]

If I had the money,i'll buy back Tech Tv from G4 and make TechTv a stand alone chanel again where it made it's mark. I think it will be a wise investment.G4 really sucks,it's a channel full of redundant bloated programming,where's their variety???

[shawn]

Sorry,I just cant watch any more.

[Elton]

helloooooooooooI cant download "Paint Shop Pro Color Palette"how can i do this??? can you tell me? pls

[Plastic Man]

Although the "new" Screensavers program is horrid, at least the "I'm so excited" Chi-Lan has been booted over to the nook and you are a co-host. Now, all the idiotic G4 producers need to do is get stupid Pereia our of there and have Kevin Rose (you know who he is!!) return with you to co-host. What a come-down for you and Kevin to tolerate the "new" program....As I have posted before, our group no longer watches the program as a group. One of us is assigned to tape the show, go through it in the vain hope that something is found resembling a dark tip, a technical download, a caller asking something other than what game is out, etc., Usually comes up with about 2 minutes of good stuff. You and Kevin need to marry, find Leo, get hold of Yoshi and even Pat Norton, and perhaps others and put together a real Screensavers-type program now that G4TechTv is almost totally a game/DVD/movie/horrid musician guest/etc., program--- It is the worst degeneration of the old Call For Help and The Screensavers programs--- We can't undertand how you and Kevin stand it---perhaps you don't and are keeping silent?? Good Luck to you and Kevin..... Death to G4-Comcast.....