Vista Home Premium user account access to thumbdrives & printers



Hi, I have two highschool daughters with laptops they use at school
running Vista Home Premium. I have them running on user accounts and I
don't want them to have the admin password because if they know what it
is they will simply start typing it in all the time, which defeats the
whole purpose of running as a user account.

There are only two things they need to do that Vista Home Premium UAC
doesn't seem to allow without the admin password - connect thumbdrives
and connect printers. They need to do both of these things at school.

Is there any way to disable the admin account security only on these
two tasks?

Also I can easily upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. If Vista Home Premium
can't do it, would upgrading to W7 Ultimate enable me to potentially
resolve this security problem?

Thumbdrives are the new CD/DVD so it seems really shortsighted not to
have a CD/DVD-style security model for them.


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bigteks
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