How Would You Lock Down a Windows XP Machine?

Kronos666 asks: "I've been working with a network of about 50 computers, and a few of them have to be locked down. What I mean is that there is an application running, and the users must not be able to do anything else on it. The computers (Windows XP), are in a Windows 2000 domain and I've tried everything that comes to mind with the group policies. Now, I know it might seem contradictory to some, but is there a way to make those computers completely locked down? Maybe someone has had previous experience with something like this?"

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With Google, as with life...

[CaptainCheese]

there's no ask-slashdot that google couldn't solve...

But 90% of the answer is in knowing how to ask exactly the right question.

The same is true of life.

That's kind of the point of "42" in Hitchhikers.. by Douglas Adams.

Re:the phrase "surely there's a program for this"

[torpor]

Unix is a tools-based approach. You have many tools already, with which you can do many different kinds of things.

Windows is a "one app, one task" based approach. You've got an app for everything you need to do, and you can't use those apps together to accomplish a bigger 'task'.

Yes, I prefer the Unix way. Give me a toolbox, and with that toolbox (and not much else) I can build a car, a house, a boat, a dam, a power station, etc.

But with Windows, I gotta download "PowerStation 1.0", "House 2.3.2", "Boat 3.2", etc. And god help me if I wanna plug House into PowerStation safely and securely ...