Re: User Rights

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/05/04


Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:53:30 -0700

No Kent, I believe it was MS (once they changed the KB
to no longer indicate one could use it in Home edition)
rather than either of us.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222
with the /areas filestore switch
(possibly followed by some cleanup for installed
software that may get hit with an NTFS change)

"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eyld54z0DHA.3468@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> My guess is that you have an upgrade from 9x or a conversion from FAT32
> to NTFS. Either of these circumstances can cause the standard file
> permissions to be too lenient.
>
> If this is the case, Roger Abell is brave enough to tell you how to
> change the file system permissions using a template. Or was I the only
> one foolhardy enough to describe how to do that? I can't remember.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>
> "Conor" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:00a901c3d2f6$5d7b5f20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
> >I use Windows XP Professional and each member of my
> > family have their own log-on. I'm set as Computer
> > Administrator and everyone else as Limited. But my
> > daughter is 7 and she still has too many rights, causing
> > her wreck the system yesterday. Is there anyway I can
> > disable right-click, run, access to C: drive etc
>



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