Setting up XP with no networking or internet

I need to install Windows XP on several computers in such a way that
even if they were connected by Cat 5 cables to the rest of the network
(which they're not), they wouldn't actually be *on* the network, nor
able to go out on the internet. I need to set them up so this applies
to the administrator accounts on these machines as well as the
restrricted ones.

Is there any simple way to do this, and if so, how?

Thanks to anyone who can help.

(And before anyone justifiably flames me to pieces, please understand
that I'm not an IT guy really -- I'm just the poor sap in our company
who seems to have the most PC experience, sad as it is.)

Hi Dennis, hey I am not an expert either, but have you heard of Group Policy?
I take it you have a server? That you have centralized management of your
company's computers on a server? With Group Policy you can do a lot of
things, from control very minute settings on different workstations, to
installing software, to doing maintainance on an individual remote computer.
The things you can do with Group Policy is really huge in control of a
network enviroment. You can lock down certain features like the tools in IE,
stop users from downloading active X controls, or software of any type, to
setting up the desktops of iindividual users as the company sees fit and stop
access to the internet. There are so many ways to configure a network
envioroment via Group Policy I could not list them all here. You access Group
Policy by opening up gpedit.msc at a command prompt or the run box. Go in and
look at all the settings. Go to the knowlege base articles and put in Group
Policy and you will find a lot of links. Also, the Microsoft technet area on
the Microsoft website has a lot of detailed information regarding Group
Policy. What you need to do probably is best done via a server using Group
Policy. You can install the OS through Group Policy and then use Group Policy
to tighten down the hatches so to speak. Good luck and I hope you get more
answers from the experts here with actual links to provide you.
--
seree


"Dennis Q. Wilson" wrote:

> I need to install Windows XP on several computers in such a way that
> even if they were connected by Cat 5 cables to the rest of the network
> (which they're not), they wouldn't actually be *on* the network, nor
> able to go out on the internet. I need to set them up so this applies
> to the administrator accounts on these machines as well as the
> restrricted ones.
>
> Is there any simple way to do this, and if so, how?
>
> Thanks to anyone who can help.
>
> (And before anyone justifiably flames me to pieces, please understand
> that I'm not an IT guy really -- I'm just the poor sap in our company
> who seems to have the most PC experience, sad as it is.)
>
>