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Vista Guest account! by Quantum on 03-14-2008 at 04:59 PM
I have windows vista.
It's home premium.
I have 1 main account (admin).
I have one guest account.
Is it possible to only have internet explorer for the guest account? So when it opens it loads and only IE is open so its really an internet account.
I searched but i can't find -anything-!
I hope you can help me on this
Best Regards,
john-t
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RE: Vista Guest account! by prashker on 03-14-2008 at 05:01 PM
C:\Users\<your guy>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Put a shortcut to Internet Explorer there.
That won't stop him from doing other stuff, but it'll start IE when you login.
RE: Vista Guest account! by MeEtc on 03-14-2008 at 05:02 PM
I'm not sure about Vista, but I do know there's a regkey that you can specify that will change the user's shell program (load something instead of explorer.exe). I'll take a look.
EDIT:
Found this, but it says its for XP Embedded
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838576.aspx
RE: Vista Guest account! by Quantum on 03-14-2008 at 10:35 PM
What one of these are the guest?
RE: Vista Guest account! by MeEtc on 03-14-2008 at 10:39 PM
Just log in as guest, run regedit as admin
RE: Vista Guest account! by Quantum on 03-14-2008 at 11:02 PM
Thanks, the XP shell is not in the same location as vista. I can't find a vista one on msdn.. can you?
RE: Vista Guest account! by Ezra on 03-14-2008 at 11:13 PM
probably doable with policies, but I'm not sure if you can set policies with home premium.
RE: Vista Guest account! by Quantum on 03-15-2008 at 11:25 AM
Well i think it can be done with a shell. XP looks easy but i cant find the path for windows vista. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
RE: Vista Guest account! by Quantum on 03-22-2008 at 05:22 PM
quote:
Originally posted by john-t
Well i think it can be done with a shell. XP looks easy but i cant find the path for windows vista. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
BUMP
quote:
Originally posted by Ezra
probably doable with policies, but I'm not sure if you can set policies with home premium.
Policies are disabled unless you use the reg in home premium
RE: Vista Guest account! by andrewdodd13 on 03-22-2008 at 05:53 PM
HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
If it doesn't exist, I would likely reckon that creating it will still work.