To do this, click the Start button, select the current account in the top-left corner, then choose Sign out. Other users will then be able to sign in from the lock screen. It's also easy to switch between users without signing out or closing your current apps. Switching users will lock the current user, so you won't need to worry about someone else accessing your account.
To do this, select the current account, then choose the desired user from the drop-down menu. You can use this same method to switch back to the other user. By default, the user account you created when setting up your computer is an Administrator account. An Administrator account allows you to make top-level changes to the computer, like adding new users or modifying specific settings.
To make this policy setting effective, you must enable it in both folders. A new option appears called List of Disallowed Applications. Click Show and a Show Contents window appears where you type in the location of the program to be blocked.
The Windows Installer should now be blocked. Office Office Exchange Server. Any advice would be appreciated, its a shame he has to go to these lengths to protect his father but I guess old age catches up to us all.
Swap it out with a Chromebook, especially if all he is doing is reading email and browsing Facebook or similar activities. The most effective solution would be to remove his local administrator rights. Create another user with admin rights. Take his users rights away. Then if he want to install some legit software his son can do it with the admin credentials.
But doesn't the same thing apply if he tries to install an app that applies only to his user profile then it will allow it? Users at work do not have the ability to install software as we denied it with group policy but every now and again someone still installs something as it applies only to their user profile and is therefore allowed. Yeah I hear you about the grandma, accept he was scammed for a fair bit of money instead with amazing "investments".
We do this at work and it ensures only an admin can then install software as only admins can modify program files. Also most malicious software that takes control of your PC needs admin access to be successful not just ran in a users security context.
An exception to this would be crypto ware that encrypts files. But again if ran in a users context without admin rights it could only encrypt files that user had access to. A good antivirus would stop this such as Sophos Central with IntetceptX. I'm going to disagree here, many browser exploits or malicious email links do not need admin rights to run, they use exploits and scripts to execute bypass techniques in already vulnerable systems - and given most home users don't patch because they dont know how, Microsoft force it for 'Home' editions of Windows, since this person has 'pro' then the management of patches is on them.
Why else would AppLocker and SRPs need to be put in place in businesses, many companies don't give users admin rights to help reduce the risk, but this in itself does not negate them clicking a 'PDF' link to a fake Office update that executes a piece of code to exploit a vulnerability in something like OLE objects, Flash or Java, to name just a handful of applications.
Most of these way's in are also not detectable by AV or malware scanners as they are neither, it's only after the fact they are issues and at that point it's typically too late. Remove admin rights, whitelist SRP whitelist is key here.
As long as you have Pro you can use local policy. You absolutely can install to your profile without admin. Give him a guest account, instead of an admin account. Needless to say, backup your Windows first.
Finally, restart your PC to allow this change to take effect. Read Also: Disable startup programs using Windows built-in tool Prevent any Installer Program from running into Windows via Registry Editor Follow the steps below very carefully as you will use Registry Editor again in this tutorial. Here are some third-party softwares that you could use. Visit their website provided above. WinGuard Pro is pretty straightforward to use. To block something, open the program, go to Program Lock tab, then click Lock Program.
A list of open apps will then appear in a box and you would choose the one you want to be locked.
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