[THIN] Re: Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And how to restrict it?

  • From: "Landin, Mark" <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:55:18 -0500

OK I hadn't thought of copying the exe and renaming it, but that's a
good idea. Thanks. 

> I did the following:
> 
> 1) Copy explorer.exe to an alternate location, rename to 
> ctx_explorer.exe (for ease of finding in process view)
> 
> 2) Publish app as follows: ctx_explorer.exe /root,"c:\" 
> (place the root path in the quotes, can be any location.
> 
> If you set the root path at say, H:\Jane, then it wont let 
> them go back/up beyond H:\Jane, but they can just go into the 
> address bar and type H:\ or C:\ or anything else and browse 
> around.  I found no way around this.  Hidding the address bar 
> is one way to prevent it I suppose, but they can just show it again.
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