Re: controlling kids access to xp box?

As an admin, and make the kids account not admin (through computer
management in control panel, administrative tools)

Then
start,Run, mmc<enter>
File,add/remove snap in, group policy object editor, local computer, finish.

close and ok.
Then go through the plethora of options here, you can even lock down
programs based on the executables md5 :)

Then in computer management under their user profile (you can do it in the
above group policy but it will apply to all users) give them a login script
like the below (vbs...yuck) to log them out after 20min

WScript.*sleep *1200
WShell.run c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -l -t 30 -c "Session ends"

(you could even do an if statement in the above to check if a file exists
and if it does logout straight away, so they can only have a session a day)

Or you could just install linux, or make a live disk...and be done with it,
all the above is probably easier to do and more documented in Linux.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Wed, August 27, 2008 11:46 am, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > you mean like a kiosk program?
>
> yes
>
> > there is *tonnes* of registry things you can change and lock down the
> > machine like crazy.
>
> thanks, I'll look into that
>
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