[Web4lib] Locking Down Proxy Settings in XP Home

[Sarah Washburn]

Hi Kevin,

One of my co-workers wasn't able to test this (we don't have XP Home
installed here), but this is what he found. He works with these types of
issues all the time, so let me know if you'd like more info. The
following is what he suggested:

"he could check to see if he can edit the Registry directly if the user
profile allows it. Be aware that familiarity with the registry editor
(the regedit.exe utility) is recommended before attempting this."

- Go to Start > Run
- Type regedit.exe
- Hit ENTER
Drill down to the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel Change the DWORD to Proxy = 1

Hope this helps!
-sarah

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of kevin smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:38 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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