Is it possible???

[students552 university]

hi Is it possible to write a program that allows us to cotrol users ability to run applications on the computer and determine which programs the user can run and prevent the user from being able to access the rest of te programs. If that's possible, what are the functions that I can use within C# that'll allow me do do this. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[Heath Stewart]

That's an IT issue, not really a programming issue. IT Administrators need to use ACLs (Access Control Lists) in Windows NT (on which Win2K, XP, and 2K3 are based, including all newer Windows to be released like "Longhorn") to allow or disallow users or - better yet - groups to run certain applications by removing the Read and Execute permissions (more specifically the Execute permission). To do that is a programming topic that can be solved in numerous ways, from using Process.Start on the cacls.exe console application to using System.DirectoryServices classes with the "WinNT://" scheme, which you can read more about at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/winnt_adspath.asp[^]. Short of that there's no easy - nor recommended way - of doing what you want. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]