RE: Limiting user rights.

"Richard McKeown" wrote:

Is there any way that I can set up an account of some type on my XPpro
machine so that my son cannot delete any files, icons, change settings,
but still be able to access programs that I can nominate and create
files from those programs, and create text files from outside of those
programs?

He's 3, and I wouldn't mind letting him stuff around on my computer, if
I knew that he couldn't stuff something up. The other option is to cram
a crowbar in the wallet and set one up for him. The only problem with
that is having to fix the problems on that computer, although they'd
probably be not life-shattering problems I suppose...

Create an account in the group Users - not a Power Users.
If this is not restrictive enough, try the built-in Guest account.
--
Newell White



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