Listing programs users CAN'T run

[Mercuic]

Ok, I know about restrictrun. It's pretty handy, except for they fact you have to enter .exe's one at a time(I have over 100 on current builds). However, really all I want to do is prevent peaple from running say...Napster(eating up our bandwith, big time). So, is there anyway of making a list caitain items not to run? If any good coders our reading this, might want to make a program what would check a list and run it if it is not on it, just associate .exe's to your program.
Thanks

[DaveA]

Good luck, all one needs to do is rename the exe file to someting not listed and it will run. Be for I retired, this is how we got around the company control freaks. Most of our IS people knew less than we the user did about NT4.0 and networking. After IS came and worked on our machines we would have to reboot, because the support felt that rebooting was not needed and they ALWAYS did perfect work with no testing. Sorry about my venting.

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[reghakr]

DaveA is correct with this, but you could hide the drives.

How are you setting this up? Only the programs you define should run from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer\RestrictRun key
as long as the DWORD value of RestrictRun is set to 1 under the key below
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

You'll have to disable Find and Run also, but now you could simply rename EXE's to prevent them running.

Post back if you need detailed instructions.
reghakr