Guest Don Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'm planning on purchasing several laptops for our firm with Vista Business installed. There is no network and all laptops will work in stand-alone mode. Is there a way I can use the built in Administrator account to prohibit the users from installing any new software while at the same time allowing upgrades and/or patches to software that is already installed? Thanks for any thoughts, input, etc. [also posted in Administration Accounts and Passwords, sorry for the double/cross post, was not sure where this belonged] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Charlie42 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 "Don" <Don@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I'm planning on purchasing several laptops for our firm with Vista > Business > installed. There is no network and all laptops will work in stand-alone > mode. Is there a way I can use the built in Administrator account to > prohibit the users from installing any new software while at the same time > allowing upgrades and/or patches to software that is already installed?</span> By default Vista does exactly that for you. Just make sure the employees are given Standard User accounts only. Vistas new UAC feature only allows Administrator accounts to install software. Windows updates are not affected by the account type, just set the machines to download and install updates automatically, and they will run silently in the background. There should be similar settings in your third party software, but you will have to check that out with the mfgr. Charlie42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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