help with policy settings

[genm]

Have you logged onto the system as the administrator and
locked the task bar. What permissions have you given to
users of the system?

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>I'm not an IT professional but, sadly, the most competent
IT person in our
>department. We have been supplied with computers that
have XP Home on them
>and I'm trying to limit what other people (mostly our
students) can do to
>trash them.
>
>So far I've set up the user accounts and I've added the
DWORD entries in the
>registry to set local policy restrictions for the start
menu. But I would
>like to know the appropriate tweaks to stop the desktop &
taskbar being
>modified and, preferably, to allow only certain
applications to run.
>
>Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
>.
>

[the man with no idea]

>Have you logged onto the system as the administrator and
>locked the task bar. What permissions have you given to
>users of the system?
>

Thanks for your reply

I have logged on as Administrator (which is a right faff on in the Home
Edition) but didn't realise you could lock the task bar (I did say I wasn't
an IT Pro). I've disabled the Guest account and created 3 user accounts -
Support, Teacher and Student. Support is at Admin level, the other 2 have
limited rights. Teachers have the normal, unhindered, start menu and require
a password to log on. Students do not need a password but the start menu has
only the 4 basic MS Office applications on it.

However, if they right-click on the desktop they can add whatever shortcuts
they like. That's what I'd like to stop.

Also, I'd really like the computers to just go right into the student
account as soon as they boot. I used to be able to do all this stuff in Win
98 using poledit and Tweakui.