Shoutbox

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

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.

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

What one of these are the guest?

Just log in as guest, run regedit as admin

Thanks, the XP shell is not in the same location as vista. I can't find a vista one on msdn.. can you?

probably doable with policies, but I'm not sure if you can set policies with home premium.

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?

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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?

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BUMP

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Originally posted by Ezra
probably doable with policies, but I'm not sure if you can set policies with home premium.

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Policies  are disabled unless you use the reg in home premium

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.