Re: OS Developer-Need Childrens User Option

From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:04:07 -0700

CMS WRC wrote:
> I spent 26 years protecting my country in uniform and 17 yrs as a Civil
> Servant.

        Your point? I spent 24 years on active duty and am also still in
government employ. I don't see the relevance.

> Please do not tell me about freedom and how it is earned.

        I didn't. Are you sure you responded to the correct post?

> I am not
> a total novice with computers as I have built a few and written several
> programs, some still used by a major headquarters of the U.S. Army.

        Is this to imply that you don't really need our help, but are instead
playing a game of "stump the chump?"

> I had
> hopes you could help me with the ability to require a password to the IE
> browser, but the one offered (content advisor) limits all users and the user
> must enter the password for every site they wish to visit.

        As you must already know, given your claimed experience, like Win2K,
WinXP's file security paradigm doesn't rely on, or allow, the cumbersome
method of password protection for individual applications, files, or
folders. Instead, it uses the superior method of explicitly assigning
file/folder permissions to individual users and/or groups.

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and
Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308419

  HOW TO Set the My Documents Folder as Private in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298399

> If there was one
> password just to enter the IE browser without a check of every site would
> solve the problem. I have an Earthlink provided children's browser which I
> want them to use, but as long as they can open the Microsoft IE browser(used
> by adults) without permission, it defeats the purpose of having the
> children's browser.

        So, simply use the information provided at the sites listed to deny the
children access to IE. 

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