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What does he want to &quot;lock&quot; about the icons? Does he want to prevent deletion? Prevent unauthorized execution?
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What does he want to "lock" about the icons? Does he want to prevent deletion? Prevent unauthorized execution?

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Marsilies, it is a matter of being able to read/change
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Marsilies, it is a matter of being able to read/change

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Yes, ok... I thought it would be overboard too
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Yes, ok... I thought it would be overboard too

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You could probably set a group policy so the users can't remove certain icons from the desktop.
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You could probably set a group policy so the users can't remove certain icons from the desktop.

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The best method is to have the monitor go into screen saver in &nbsp;a few minutes and required login.<br />
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I did not explain very well. &nbsp;The user does NOT want others to be able to click on an icon and read or change the content of the document or file the icon represents (e.g. word, excel, pdf, etc..).
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The best method is to have the monitor go into screen saver in  a few minutes and required login.

I did not explain very well.  The user does NOT want others to be able to click on an icon and read or change the content of the document or file the icon represents (e.g. word, excel, pdf, etc..).

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Hello, I have a client that wants to password protect icons on his desktop. &nbsp;We already have a screen saver that requires logon set to 3 minutes but he wants to lock the icons too. &nbsp; I have discussed passwords on documents for pdf, word, excel, etc.. &nbsp;I have not been able to sway the client away from locking icons... any thoughts or tools?<br />
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Most are actual files, some are shortcuts.
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Hello, I have a client that wants to password protect icons on his desktop.  We already have a screen saver that requires logon set to 3 minutes but he wants to lock the icons too.   I have discussed passwords on documents for pdf, word, excel, etc..  I have not been able to sway the client away from locking icons... any thoughts or tools?

Most are actual files, some are shortcuts.

Locking icons on desktop

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