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Renaming exe files

Two issues at the school I do tech support for:

1. How to stop or find out when students rename exe files to somthing else so I cant do a search for *.exe? (in their home folder) Or how do I stop execute permission on their home folder without affecting normal work? They also tend to delete the games before I do my weekly check as I am only there two times a week.

2. How to stop students installing software on local machines thru AD. They go to a web site and dowload setup (EG arcadeGamesSetup.exe) and install it. How do I stop this?

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Naga Bhanu Kiran Kota

hi there

first of all creat a group for all the students and assign them a default profile or a mandatory profile. disable write access to c: drive and then assign them only permissions on their mydocuments directory. so they will not be able to change or delete any files. And also restrict their access to the registry as any game files whether trial or freeware will make entries in registry and when they try to install those games will not be installed as they dont have access to the registry and also they can create any other folders in the programe files directory.
pls read this group policy thig and also refer to the second link which is very specific to your requirements

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227181/en-us

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/default.mspx

bhanu

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Wingatesl: This is a school that has a lot of software and is would be very hard to put every application into the list.

bhanukir: How do I stop execute (only) permission to their home folder?

I still need to know how to find an exe that has been re-named. Thanks

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