Re: Restrict Application access for my kid

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:35:18 GMT

You can convert fat to ntfs as described in the KB link below. It usually works well,
but I recommend you back up any critical data including your user profile under
documents and settings to another hard drive or cdrom first just in case. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;214579

"K" <mompara@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:F_m1c.14515$qA2.750588@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Hello
>
> I have W2000 and FAT32 formatted drive
>
> I want to restrict my (10 yr old) daughter from accessing certain
> applications (MSN Messenger) at certain times. I thought of using
> Permissions, but this only works with NTFS formatted disks. I don't
> think I can convert FAT32 to NTFS on a current drive, or without
> destroying the contents of my C drive.
>
> Is there any way (or application I may use) to restrict access to
> certain applications?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>

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