[Web4lib] Locking Down Proxy Settings in XP Home

[Riesner, Giles]

 If you want to lock down Internet Options in IE , here's the registry
information you need:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions]
"NoBrowserOptions"=dword:00000001    

Setting the value to "0" will make it accessible again.

There are a bunch of other browser options (NoBrowserClose, NoFileOpen
,etc.) that can also be
set. I think I found the information  along the line in Registry Guide
for Windows (it was at winguides.com,
but is now at pctools.com). The URL for the whole list is:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/442/


Giles W. Riesner Jr., Library Tech Support
Community College of Balto. Co. - Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Rd., Baltimore MD 21228  USA
Tel/V-Mail 1-410-455-4245
Fax          1-410-455-6106
Email:       griesner at ccbcmd.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of kevin smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:38 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Locking Down Proxy Settings in XP Home

Hello,

I am trying to lock the proxy settings on some public access computers.
I have managed to do this for Firefox using instructions found
here<http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings/>.
I understand that you could lock proxy settings in the Microsoft Shared
Computer Toolkit, but its successor, SteadyState does not seem to have
this feature.  If I was using XP Pro, I could lock the features using
goup policy editor, but this feature is not in XP Home.  Any advice
would be greatly appreciated.

--
Kevin Smith
Assistant Director
Cass District Library AND
The Fiddling Librarian: http://ashkev.weblogs.us
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