You can certainly apply policies on a local machine to a particular user, it
is just fairly tricky. All you have to do is edit your policy then
immediately use Deny NTFS permissions to the user you don't want it applying
to (C:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy I think is the correct folder, it has
been a long time since I attempted this).

-Trevor

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
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No, you can apply group policies on stand alone machine, but they will apply
to all users of the machine. You can't apply policies to individual users in
a non-domain environment.

I've never used ADSL, but I would assume the modem is available to all
users. If they have to establish a connection (i.e. its not "always on")
then there may be steps you can take, such as not making the connection
available to all users.

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> In article <u#Yf8FK4FHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>, dknox@mvps.org
> says...
>
>> In a stand alone enviroment, Group Policies apply to all user's of the
>> machine.
>
> I can only apply them when, then? If I'm on a domain?
>
>> Additionally, if you're using broadband internet, via an Ethernet
>> connection,
>> its almost impossible to block all Internet Access without 3rd party
>> software.
>
> This (or rather, that) PC is connecting via USB to ADSL. I guess the
> same applies?