Win Explorer Help Item

[ogre01]

A machine is being prepared for use in a public place. Launchable apps have been reduced to just the minimum to run this main application. Among the apps hidden from plain view is Internet Explorer. My Documents access is needed which is provided through Windows Explorer. However, when one goes to Windows Explorer -> Help, there is a menu option there labeled "Is this copy of Windows legal?". When clicked, it spawns Internet Explorer which then defeats the purpose of this machine and now the user is able to browse elsewhere. Can't use the content advisor since that may have unforseen repercussions on the main application.

Does anyone know of a way to remove that menu option?

[CuBie]

No offence, but the way you seem to be doing it is pointless - there are soo many ways to get arond what your doing - for example typing a url in the address bar in the my documents folder?

I suggest you find another way to do this or you are gonna be fixing loop holes forever.

Chris.

[Justice]

Try establishing group policies that prevent the use of IE.

[likuidkewl]

Try establishing group policies that prevent the use of IE.

The issue I see with that is HTML help files will not work on this machine, if this machine is connected to a router/firewall like a Microsoft server edition running ISA server software you can disable internet access to it all the time in the setting of the ISA server itself, Microsoft has a fre trial of ISA server 2000 for download and I think the ISA server 2004 beta went public also.