[WEB4LIB] RE: Disabling Netscape preferences menu

[Debra Lords]

Michael,  

When you do this, what error messages display?  If you are
talking about personal machines, who cares.  For public access
machines, I'd be very, very cautious.

We leave ours open but have software on that re-writes the
prefs.js when the machines are either re-booted or re-logged on,
which happens at least once daily.  We use PC-Rdist available
from Pyzzo Software (http://www.pyzzo.com/) to do the file
replacements.  We justify paying for sotware to do this because:
1. We are in a highly hostile envrionment (users *trying* to
break machines)
2. We run several applications that require certain files remain
writeable for the application to work -- at all -- but we don't
want individual settings to remain.
3. Even if it worked, the number of questions at the service
counter would drive the counter staff to distraction and they
would drive us to madness.

Hope this helps.

-- 

Debbie

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Michael Sauers wrote:
> 
> > file can be set to read-only (and other assorted tricks) but I would like
> > to actually stop access to the preferences menu.
> 
> Rename prefui32.dll to something else, I like prefui32.dllx.
> 
> This will still display the edit|preferences menu item but when clicked
> Netscape will try to launch prefui32.dll which is no longer there.
> 
> When you need to make changes, just rename it back to its original state,
> make your changes, then rename it back to the false-name.
> 
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