Restrict Specific Applications

Title: Restrict Specific Applications
What is this: This trick prevents users from running specific applications
Valid for: Windows XP/2000/ME
Registry Keys:
System Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
User Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Changes:
Create new DWORD value called "DisallowRun"
value=1 to enable restrictions
value=0 to disable restrictions
Then create a new sub-key called DisallowRun at the following location [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun]
and define the applications to be restricted
Creating a new string value for each application, named as consecutive numbers, and setting the value to the filename to be restriced
for example to restrict Notepad, MS Paint create following string values
string name string value
1 notepad.exe
2 mspaint.exe
and so on

add as many as you like