I'm looking for a program and I'm not sure what is the best for this situation. I am in search of a program that allows me to setup "shortcuts" to programs like Word, Excel, etc. and also possibly "lockdown" the users desktop so they can only use those shortcuts I specify. I know that the Novell Client has this (Novell Application Launcher or NAL) but I have a client that is running a Windows NT environment and that won't work.

Basically, this client has employees that he doesn't want doing anything with their computers except for using the programs he specifies. I know I can lockdown the PC's by using tools such as Policy Editor or the like but I need another program that has the application launcher features.

Does anyone know of some good quality programs for this? The budget is somewhat small for this client to spend on this but I am open to any suggestions.

Also, I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum. If not, please accept my apologies and also mods, please move the thread to the correct forum. I just felt that this is a "technical" issue/question and warranted being posted here.

Thank you,

Anyone? I know there are programs out there that do this. Download.com has some but they are all either trial or freeware and with that in mind, the quality of the product is not so good. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

I could be wrong (it's been a while) but doesn't zenworks run stand-alone on NT?

Gary

D'oh! Nevermind.. didn't read the whole thread :eek:

Originally posted by Editor
I could be wrong (it's been a while) but doesn't zenworks run stand-alone on NT?

Gary

Thank you for the recommendation. I wasn't aware that ZENworks would work with a Windows NT environment but it does. I haven't tested it yet but everything on Novell's website states that it isn't a problem. I've used previous versions of this for Novell networks and find it to be a good quality product. Now on to testing...:D

I thought that it must, because back in my deep dark Army days, I ran Novell and NT networks. I couldn't run them into each other, so I was sure we had zenworks on both.

All the best with it.

Gary

Fortress might have what you want