Re: Restricting other users

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/31/05 

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 16:15:37 -0700

I see. Boy did I ever make some wrong assumptions.
Paul has you covered with info on your best alternative. 

-- 
Roger
"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EFAFFA7B-26B2-4585-814B-D8DFEDACEED3@microsoft.com...
> Hi Roger,
> Thanks for your help but maybe i should have been more specific.
> I am currently running XP Home edition and when i turn my computer on it
> shows a welcome screen. On the welcome screen is my sign-in name 'dad' and
i
> am the administrater. Also there are the names of my kids and we each have
to
> put in our password to enter our username and settings. I am the only
> administrater, the kids have limited accounts.
> What i want to do is 'lock' the computer so that they are unable to use it
> sometimes. For instance if they have been bad and a punishment of no games
is
> ordered, then i want to be able to set a password that prevents them from
> logging on while i am out of the house.
> i found out that by turning 'fast user switching' off i could press
> 'windows+L' which locks it, but my irritating son soon realised that by
> rebooting the computer it resets to the normal welcome screen and he can
log
> in as normal!
> This is kind of annoying. So please, is there anyway that i can
temporarily
> lock the PC when the kids are bad?!
> Thanks

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