Locking down the desktop

Is there a way (without dloading a third-party program) to make it so a user cannot manipulate the desktop in any way (besides entering a folder or using a program)??

Tjhanks for all help provided.

well, if you're using xpHome, then chances are slim...
If XPPro..then you probably can...you could in NT4...

You'll have to edit the registry though, and in so doing you would also have to restrict access to regedit as well....
Editing the registry can literally kill your computer....well, windows anyway. So make backups of very important data and especially of the registry...

I don't personally know which reg keys to edit, but if you do a search you'll probably find something...
in fact, check out a program from www.winguides.com, a bunch of tweaks and hacks are mad available...free of course.

If you are on xpPro, or home, you could try setting users as limited as well, then editing policies....
start/run type: secpol or something..can't recall.

Download a program called poledit from the web. Its a MS tool used to lock down systems over a network. It edits the registry on the machine and you should be able to get policy templates for XP.

Search the web for poledit for more info

Thanks a bunch for the help.