Help defining local user restrictions, please?
From: Robb Pierce (robbpierce@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/18/02
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From: "Robb Pierce" <robbpierce@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:10:34 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>My wife & I recently purchased a new machine running XP
Pro as "our"
>computer . . . our 4-year-old has an older system that
we let him play on as
>there's no crucial data that he can wreck. However,
this boy is a
>Spider-man junky and really wants to play the movie-
based game . . . which
>will only run on our new system.
>
>So to the point . . . How do I set permissions/restrict
access for a
>particular user on a single machine in XP Pro? I have
my son set up as a
>"limited" user, but he still has access to control
panel, all programs,
>etc., which could be disastrous. I've looked at Users
in admin tools, but I
>cannot find anywhere to define specifically what shows
up in his
>environment.
>
>Specifically, I want to remove the majority of the
program menu, control
>panel, etc. from his environment. In older versions of
Windows this
>involved using the Policy Editor, which gave you a bunch
of simple
>checklists to do things such as not show control panel
or network
>neighborhood. I can find no such thing in XP except for
an Office XP Policy
>Editor that one can download from MS, and of course this
only sets
>permissions for Office-related software. I've searched
the MS database to
>no avail--either the info isn't there or I'm using the
wrong search terms.
>Does
>it somehow involve the Group Policy Editor?
>
>Again this is a single home computer; currently our only
networking is our
>cable modem hookup, but this single machine is all I'm
concerned about at
>present.
>
>Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated . . .
>
>Jerry Trapp
>
>
>.
>
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