How can i prevent users double clicking the Startup Folder which launches Explorer

Im using a small program called "Access Manager" which has an easy
interface for putting polices on a number of different PCs I have.
I have locked down a lot of stuff (blank desktop etc) as i only want
the user to access 1 icon in the Start, programs menu.
Also in here is a folder called Startup (which is empty) but if the
user double clicks the Startup item then it launches an Explorer
Window at the Startup folder location, which in turn gives them access
to the C Drive which i want to prevent.
I dont want to disable the double-click functionality.
Windows wont let me delete the Startup folder so is there any way
around this?

TIA

Douglas

Perhaps this article will tell you how:

Using Poledit: Policy Editor to help secure Windows 95/98
computers: http://www.zisman.ca/poledit/

Otherwise I would try renaming the explorer.exe file so
that Windows Explorer can't be run.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
Im using a small program called "Access Manager" which
has an easy
interface for putting polices on a number of different
PCs I have.
I have locked down a lot of stuff (blank desktop etc) as
i only want
the user to access 1 icon in the Start, programs menu.
Also in here is a folder called Startup (which is empty)
but if the
user double clicks the Startup item then it launches an
Explorer
Window at the Startup folder location, which in turn
gives them access
to the C Drive which i want to prevent.
I dont want to disable the double-click functionality.
Windows wont let me delete the Startup folder so is there
any way
around this?

TIA

Douglas
.

Explorer.exe also creates the desktop, start menu, etc., and poledit cannot
help so I don't believe those ideas will help.

The startup folder can be deleted from a DOS prompt; however, I believe it
is rebuilt at some point in the boot process. Perhaps you could experiment
with a batch file that deletes the folder after the point where it is
rebuilt.



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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Eric" wrote in message
...
Perhaps this article will tell you how:

Using Poledit: Policy Editor to help secure Windows 95/98
computers: http://www.zisman.ca/poledit/

Otherwise I would try renaming the explorer.exe file so
that Windows Explorer can't be run.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
Im using a small program called "Access Manager" which
has an easy
interface for putting polices on a number of different
PCs I have.
I have locked down a lot of stuff (blank desktop etc) as
i only want
the user to access 1 icon in the Start, programs menu.
Also in here is a folder called Startup (which is empty)
but if the
user double clicks the Startup item then it launches an
Explorer
Window at the Startup folder location, which in turn
gives them access
to the C Drive which i want to prevent.
I dont want to disable the double-click functionality.
Windows wont let me delete the Startup folder so is there
any way
around this?

TIA

Douglas
.

(Douglas) wrote in
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Im using a small program called "Access Manager" which has an easy
interface for putting polices on a number of different PCs I have.
I have locked down a lot of stuff (blank desktop etc) as i only want
the user to access 1 icon in the Start, programs menu.
Also in here is a folder called Startup (which is empty) but if the
user double clicks the Startup item then it launches an Explorer
Window at the Startup folder location, which in turn gives them access
to the C Drive which i want to prevent.
I dont want to disable the double-click functionality.
Windows wont let me delete the Startup folder so is there any way
around this?

TIA

Douglas

Do you mean that the users may only run one program?

You could change the line 'Shell=explorer.exe' in system.ini to
'Shell=yourprogram.exe'. Then there is no explorer.
There is a hole in this bucket: by using File-Open or Save as, you can
navigate to C:\Windows, rightclick explorer and select 'open'. But you can
delete it, or hide it, of course.