RE: [PCTECH] Any way to block users from downloading free softwarefromthe internet ?

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden,

With W2K you could really limit a user DOWN the levels. Now with XP Pro, we
have all kinds of 3rd party software vendors, and even Microsoft saying the
user has to be setup as Computer Administrator in order to run. 

I'm fairly new to XP Pro so what am I missing ? :-)

Thanks !

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:13 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Any way to block users from downloading free
softwarefromthe internet ?

>Told him you (used to) control it with user rights but XP Pro has pretty
>much torpedoed that.
 
In what way has XP "torpedoed" the ability to control user rights? XP honors
policies, with even more granularity than Win2K did. 
 
You chould also add something on the proxy server to prevent the download of
.exe (or .zip's containing .exe, etc.) from the net.
 
-Walden