Prevent Some Software To Run

To make your computer more secure, one of the ways that you can take is to prevent computer users to run several software that you deem dangerous to run. For example, user 1 can’t run Microsoft Word, user 2 can not run Microsoft Excel, etc. … So, if your computer users can’t run all the software in the computer, it makes your computer be more secure

And I am set the configuration of restriction from registry. As you know registry is Windows configuration collection. But be careful; don’t restrict the important softwares that may be disturbing your system.

Open Registry Editor, click Start -> Run menu and then type regedit then press Enter.
After Registry Editor is opened pointing to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
Highlight the Explorer key.
Right click at right panel then choose New -> DWORD key, and replace the value with DisallowRun.
Double click DisallowRun value and change the value from 0 to 1.
And you must be look the result like picture below.
Right click again on empty space and choose New -> Key menu then give it name DisallowRun.
Highlight DisallowRun key and right click on the right panel and choose String Value.
Give it name with whatever you want name then double click it and in textbox write down then filename of software that you want restricted, for example if I want restrict Microsoft Word, I type winword.exe.
And appearance of registry will look like picture below.
Add your whises software list to restrict with repeat step 8 & 9.
If you’re done, close Registry Editor and logoff.
Login again and try to open your restricted software, you’ll get error message like picture below.