Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
We have 2 accounts on our PC, the main Administrator account and a Limited account for Rosie, Beccy's daughter. However, despite my best efforts, she can still potentially see stuff I don't want her to see.
I have a second hard drive and although there is nothing particularly private on there, I want that to be a place that she can't get to. However, when I 'Right-Click' on it and view the security options, the 'Make this folder private' option cannot be selected. Nor can it for any of the folders on that drive (or any other drive on the machine).
Additionally, Rosie seems to have access to all my programs. I have just installed 'PKR' online Poker game and I don't want her being able to use that, amongst others.
What can I do??!!
I am shocked by how clever kids her age are too. I am quite technically minded, but even I was shocked to learn that the use of Bebo is banned at her school, but they are still accessing it using Proxies. I didn't even know what a Proxy is, but now know that it enables them to access Bebo indirectly. Crafty lil fuckers.
hehe, yap kids today are clever
answer to you question
XP accounts with limited access do work...in a way. but sadly not fully.
you did make all files "private" when you did make your account?
run it again and make sure you did it the right way
you could try this one to
http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/?id=gb
or this
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...e-Folder.shtml
just for the files
as some progs would be installed on both accounts(as you have found out) and be fully accessible from both accounts
first.
its 1 way to bypass the account you have made and log on to the computer as a administrator
not many people know this, but its actually very very easy
when you start the computer you just hit the "F8" button and start the computer in security mode
then you would get up, in your case 3 accounts
Administrator
Your administrator account
Rosie´s account
and off course the top administrator account has no password as it ain't accessible from the control panel --->manage user
So to delete that user... and 2/3 other ones,
right click on the "my computer icon" go to manage
then click on the right side where you see "local user and groups"
then its open
users and groups
go to users and delete all the accounts that you dont use
guest cant be deleted!
or it could... but i dont want to explain that now!