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Windows: "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
The only way you would receive this error is because of the Prevent access to drives from My Computer group policy.
The solution is to set User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows ...
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I would like to set up a macro to restrict an Excel file to a specific user from the list
You DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS.
To prevent users from opening a file require them to open the file in order the macro to run (and if not the right user has opened it then close it immediately).
Besides ...
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How to prevent any game from running on a PC
You can not have an "unbreachable" way to do this - once you have a physical access to a PC, its more-or-less game-over. The best you can do is frustrate access to certain games - be it based on ...
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How to view my system-wide policies in Windows 11?
It depends on how the computer is being managed, as there are many different approaches to managing computers in a corporate environment.
The most common ones for windows can be viewed like so:
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How to prevent access to websites built in certain regions on Windows 10?
Here is one possibility that I found, which is today only available
from the internet archive.
I have not tested it, but here is how to use it.
Start a PowerShell session as Administrator and run the ...
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Maintaining a clean environment on a shared computer : automatic data deletion?
Maybe this is not what you are looking for, but there is a program called DeepFreeze
https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/products/deep-freeze
It allows you to "freeze" a computer (all changes ...
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Word - must not be able to edit --> but can save as
What you want to do is turn the document into a template. This means that once you open the document, you get the content of the document, but Word will treat it as a new document.
This means that if ...
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Word - must not be able to edit --> but can save as
There could be multiple ways to prevent editing a document, by folder or document level:
at document level - I think you mean this - you can "mark as final":
Use Mark as Final to make your Word, ...
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Windows: "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
If you have not configured Group Policy on your PC, try clearing the cached settings in the registry.
These are located here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...
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Windows: "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
This is probably due to the following Group Policy setting:
Subtree: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer
Setting: Hide these specified drives in My ...
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Is there a way to restrict network access to a partition/drive?
Most of attacks coming not directly over network, but allowed by users when they downloading malicious attachments either from emails or picking it from malicious or hacked web sites. Since malicious ...
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Restrict OS functionality for a user
Take a look at the Linux distro porteus kiosk.
It would seem cover every area of concern you have. It includes a website whitelist so you can lock things down to just one site.
There are other ...
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Restrict user from accessing any programs but one (win 10)
UPDATE: You can do this using Assigned Access.
Left click on Start, then click Settings, then Accounts.
Now click Family and other users. In Other Users click Setup assigned access. Choose the ...
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Windows 7 Drive permissions (alternative to group policy) block access to internal OS Drives from external OS
File permissions are OS-centric, so permissions set by one OS can be ignored and/or overridden by other OSs.
So to directly answer your question -- short of implementing full-disk encryption, you can'...
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restrict access for user to several directories
I think using chroot is the best bet. Use mount --bind /source /home/user/dir to create a "tree" of directories the user can access from the chroot jail.
The alternative would be to deny the user ...
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