Re: Restricting other users

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 06/02/05 

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:55:12 -0700

Joe,

You may be at a disadvantage here as many people in this newsgroup
are using server and pro versions, and home edition has some specific
peculiarities.

The Local Users and Groups node in Computer Management to which
Paul made reference may be started using
lusrmgr.msc
entered at Start / Run while for the Computer Management interface
one would enter
compmgmt.msc

If I recall correctly from my extremely limited time seeing Home edition,
the logical routes to manage a user account steer you away from these
interfaces. Hopefully running these .msc's might get you right there.

Also, to disable an account named Tommy one may at a cmd prompt
enter the command
net user tommy /active:no
If you were to Start / Run cmd and in the cmd window enter
net help user
you will get a list of info, showing /active:no may be reversed with
use of /active:yes
If you have three kid, you can use notepad to place /active:no lines
for each in a file that you save with a .bat extension, and a similar
reversing bat file where /active:yes is used. Then, double-clicking
on these would run the net user command for all of them. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E6478ECF-52DE-4D0A-8F5A-AE385A52E3C1@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Firstly it is not a disipline problem as such, instead the problem is an
> inept Nanny. Secondly I'm afraid I still dont understand what you mean
when
> you say:
>
> Log in as yourself, open Computer Management, open Local Users and
> Groups, open Users, right-click the account, click Properties, then
> click Account is disabled. Unclick it when the punishment period is
> over.
>
> I just cant seem to work out how to open 'local users and groups' within a
> program i found called computer management, in a file called admin tools.
> Thanks
>

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