Re: Lock Out a User in Win XP home?

From: Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:36:19 -0500

    FYI - with the availability of "today's" hacking tools, there is nothing
short of removing the PC and boxing it up until the "grounded" time is over
that is going to stop her - the first rule of security - physical access -
if you can't remove physical access, all other options are automatically
compromised.
    You could always do what I did with my son a few years back - I opened
the case, removed the CPU and memory, boxed it up and it stayed in my safe
for 30 days. 

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"R Keck" <RKeck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:079E3AAD-82BA-477B-AC08-E2151AF10CA0@microsoft.com...
> Running WindowsXP Home SP2 NTFS.  Our daughter's computer is in her room.
> She is now grounded from her computer for a week.  She is a restricted
user.
> Is there not a way to lock her out?  Temporarily disable her account?  The
> lock feature of XP (non domain) is generally useless.  Yes, it can lock a
> user's desktop, but I want to lock the PC where only an admin user can
unlock
> it.  No, I do not want to delete the account and probably lose all it's
> settings even after recreating using the same name.
>
> Why can't any other account be turned off like the guest account can be
> turned on and off?
>
> For now, I've changed her password, but this seems to be a not-so-good
> solution to a problem that has to come up often this day in age when
> practically every kid has a PC in their room.
>
> Furthermore, Microsoft should implement an allowed schedule of hours for
> restricted users that can be managed by an admin user ... like found in
> domain configurations, but at the PC level ... i.e. at 8:00 pm, she is
> forcibly logged off and not allowed back on until 6:00 pm.
>
> Thanks in advance

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