prevent users from adding to Favorites folder

[schooltechnical]

hi everyone. I have a WK3 server and about 50 winxp clients. I use group policies to bolt everything down. As you all know one can create a list of predetermined urls through group policy. So when my pupils logon they can go to Favourites and click on the urls i have set up. This is my problem: pupils are adding their own urls to the Favourites and i want to stop this. Don't get me wrong: my predetermined urls are still present after logon/logoff but so are theirs! I can't find any option within the GPO to stop this. Anybody know of a workaround. Thanks
Try and have a good day everyone.

 

[maximusimo]

OK,

I found this:

http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/bltip046.htm

but as it is a registry hack I dont know if it will be of use as am not sure if you can deploy such things through GPO. If you can then this could be a solution as you would just implement the change described and on the network folder only allow read privileges to users.

 

[schooltechnical]

thanks maximusimo! i'll try this. Anybody know how to convert .reg files into adm files that can be rolled out via GPO? thanks

 

[bazzert]

Do you have mandatory profile for the pupils? You could try only giving them read access to the favourites folder in the profile