Sunday, October 28, 2012

How to allow user to Run only specific Application in Windows 7

If you are a System Administrator of a Company and as your Company standard user can run only specified Application which is authorized, then your task is How to allow user to run Only Specified Application such as MS word , Internet Explorer , MS Excel and Notepad etc.

Please follow the following step to do this :


  • Open Group Policy Editor by typing "gpedit" in start menu's search bar as same as displaying in following image.
  • Following screen is appeared.

  • In the above screen select the option in following way..
    • Select User Configuration
    • Select Administrative Templates
    • Select System 
  • In System option select "Run only specified Windows Application" as shown in following screen.

  • Now in opened screen select "Enabled" Radio buttion and click on "Show" button as displaying in following image.



  • Now new screen is displayed in that write the list of application's .exe file that you want to access to the user.

  • Some list of exe file name associated with application is as follow :
    • MS Word                 -      winword.exe
    • MS Excel                 -      excel.exe
    • Notepad                  -      notepad.exe
    • Internet Explorer   -      iexplore.exe
    • Calculator               -       calc.exe
    • Visual Studio         -       devenv.exe
  • After specify the list of exe file in the above screen click on OK button and then Apply button and then OK button.
  • Now, If user is going to access other than specified application it will give error message as following.

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