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re: Restrict One User in XP
Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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Posted by Ari (1378 messages posted)


Just create a new user account for him that has only regular privileges, not administrator 
privileges.  Password protect all the accounts with administrator privileges, so 
he can't get into them accidentally.  And, despite doing this, back up often.





On Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm, arthur brogard wrote:
>I want my 5 year old to have the use of an XP computer here at home. But I don't
>want him to access the internet and I don't want him to be able to mess with the
>firewall or the anti-virus or anything else in the system tray.
>
> Can I totally restrict his movement to few select progs somehow?
>
> regards,
>
> ab :)



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Restrict One User in XP (arthur brogard: Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Restrict One User in XP (arthur brogard: Sat, Aug 2, 2008, 8:35 pm)
*re: Restrict One User in XP (Ari: Sat, Aug 2, 2008, 10:01 pm)
-re: Restrict One User in XP (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 4:18 am)
-re: Restrict One User in XP (arthur brogard: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 8:16 pm)
*re: Restrict One User in XP (Spexx: Mon, Aug 4, 2008, 4:50 am)
*re: Restrict One User in XP (Jacob6601: Mon, Aug 4, 2008, 9:33 am)
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