Keeping tabs on kids' computer use

[miztrniceguy]

Mahone, my understanding is that it won't work on xp home.

[Mahone]

Originally Posted by miztrniceguy

Mahone, my understanding is that it won't work on xp home.

Good point! I'm not used to working with XP home, I keep forgetting how much microsoft stripped out of it. There are ways to enable both features on XP home, but if you haven't already tried it (I suspect you probably have) a much more simple way you could try is just to put their account in the limited users group. I don't remember off hand exactly what restrictions this enforces, I prefer to do things manually.

Regarding the issue you mentioned of you kid changing start menu and desktop icons, you can enforce restrictions on the all users start menu and desktop folders, so they can add/delete start menu icons to their own account, not everyones - this can be done in xp home too, but you need to boot up into safe mode and log in as administrator to see the option to do it.

[miztrniceguy]

thanks for the tips. i'll look into it soon

[its_Chet]

I like your user name, "xforeverxmetalx"

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