Prevent the use of portable software on non-admin accounts

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Published on 2010-03-09T07:56:37Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 8:21 UTC
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Is it possible to disable the use of portable applications on non-administrator accounts? I am the administrator on a Windows XP machine, and I do not want limited users to be able to run portable applications - especially web browsers.

Can this be done?

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