there are programs like secureit pro, winsecure, etc, that all basically lock the win32 system desktop and anything else until a password is provided, i was just wondering if any of you would recommend a program that can do that with decent graphics and can be minimized into the icon tray for easy access. please leave a site or something I can download it from, thanks.

use google

how bouts you just log off..... ??

Manage Workstation with GPO in windows 2000 server or 2003.
It s the better to restrict access at users.
Else try with poledit (old )

You can lock down just about anything with the proper registry changes and poledit. Also, I would consider using something like deep freeze. This way no matter what changes a user makes, if they even can depending on the policies, then when the machines are rebooted they go back to the clean image via deep freeze and all the changes are reset.

Or use Security Administrator. It's a good program. Should help. Definitely worth to look at.
Link: http://www.softheap.com/secagent.html

I do not recommend anyone use any software from Soft Heap. But that is just my opinion. Because I downloaded 1st Security Agent for a few of my workstations to lay heavy restrictions and well it worked great. Optimized for 2K,XP,2003 ... its really good in restriction wise and the best one I could find yet. But... it made insufficient and unknown changes to the system without my consent. I went to go into system restore one day and all the settings were greyed out completely. I could not use any of it. So I cleared every restriction and even uninstalled the program and cleaned up the rest of it. And the system changes were still there. So I checked out google and found some tool that re-enabled it and obviously someone made a program to undo the changes that soft heap made(they knew about it too) So they fixed it up. Not going back to soft heap again.

thanks for the warning.. and that security administrator program costs 34 dollars.. yikes

this isn't a google question, btw, Obliv. was asking for recommendations