Prevent Explorer.exe from launching at startup on a per user basis

[cogumel0]

Hi All,

I know I can change the shell from explorer to something else, but the way that I know is by changing the registry on the local machine node, which means it affects the machine rather than the user.

I am actually looking for a way of doing this on a per-user basis (without any login scripts that close explorer after it's been launched, therefore only going round the problem, and not truly fixing it).

The idea is to have the shell explorer.exe replaced by outlook.exe, as that's the program that I want to run at startup and the only program I want users to have access to.

One last thing, if anyone knows, is there a way of, without an external program, setting it up so that if outlook (or any other program for that matter) is ever closed, it logs out the user?

Cheers,

cogumel0

[Idontwantspam]

See the link in my sig to modifying policies for each user. Follow the instructions there for loading profiles, etc. The policy you need to apply is

\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

And create a string value named Shell. Set its value to be the path of the program you want to open - for example, %programfiles%\internet explorer\iexplore.exe. I know that there is a policy setting to prevent users from closing internet explorer, I don't know if there is a method to do so for outlook express.