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Paul - 02 Oct 2008 15:17 GMT

Hi,

How do I stop Internet Explorer running as Administrator or in the context
of an Administrator account on our client pc's.

There does not seem a way through group policy.

New policy says we have to stop IE from running rather them simply removing
the desktop icons.

IE needs to run in the context of a user account only, even when logged on a
machine as Administrator.

Our domain is a windows 2000 domain, running windows 200 and xp clients.

Many Thanks

Paul

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Steve Riley [MSFT] - 29 Oct 2008 03:45 GMT

There's no built-in way to do that. However, you can use a utility called
DropMyRights to achieve something similar. Note that there's no way to
prevent an administrator from starting IE normally.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972827.aspx

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