How to Block An Application from Accessing the Internet. Windows plugged in the following program path. Prevent Internet Access not functioning. UPDATE : I've edited this post because I've had another click around (not messed with Steady. State for a while) and noticed that as long as you leave . Might be something to do with the fact that it tries to update Internet Explorer on the restricted account at the point they log in for the first time to update its settings.
However, it can't because we've told it it's not allowed to? You don't have to log off and go to your restricted account to test its plausability. All we are doing is saying that we want internet access to go through a proxy (that doesn't exist). Then we tell it to ignore the proxy for the address we want access to. Steady. State does exactly the same thing (it calls the proxy something similar to . NOTE 2: IF you are going to do this on the restricted account you obviously need to remove any restrictions on internet explorer to begin with in order to make the changes. Anyway.. Go into restricted account and open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools- > Internet Options- > Connections (tab)- > Lan Settings (bottom right). Finally, in the very bottom box, put the address you want people to access into it seperated by semi- colon. You can also use a wildcard such as *. Once done, accept/apply everything until all your boxes are closed. You should be able to test this instantly by trying to access the addresses you entered. IMPORTANT: When your happy its working as it should, just go back to your admin account and add all the restrictions back to Internet explorer but do NOT tick the box that says . By ticking it, it will override the manual settings we've just applied and bugger it all up again. I'm sure for a school with alot of computers it could become tedious to do this. Might be worth doing the manual approach above and using a Proxy Auto Config file insteady that all computers access. That way there's one point of call to make changes. You fully control internet access. Internet Lock is not a simple 'click to block. Allow a program to access internet 20:00. Designed for Windows XP, Vista, 7. Today we take a quick look at restricting what programs other users can access.
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