Stopping IE explorer accessing Desktop.

Hi all.

This is a straightforward question, yet one that will have your brain doing
sumassualts trying to get around it.

I own a cyber cafe, and we use a cyber cafe program to lockdown the pc's,
and it works very well, with one exception. If a user opens internet explorer
browser and enters the word "Escritorio" (desktop in english) it will then
show all the icons on the desktop, which would normally be hidden by the
cyber program.

What I want to do, is disable this availibily, so that if someone types in
the Internet Explorer browser bar "desktop", or more appropriately for me (im
in spain) "Escritorio" it will say page cannot be displayed or other error.

Anyone know how I can go about this?

Why do I want to do this..? users sometimes download or insert files
(including pr0n links) onto the desktop, and launch these thigns this way, if
I can block desktop access then this avenue will be closed..

many thanks in advance.

Adrian
ibiza

Adrian,

In theory, applying the following registry key should do the trick:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/959/

I havent tried it though.

Regards

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

Thankyou

Shops heaving right now, but ill give this a try tomorrow A.M:

many thanks..

Well I tried ot, Sorry to say it didnt woirk and pc is stil the same..

If your browsing web sites, and enter c:\ in the browser it still displays
all drive contents.,..