Re: Password

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From: RG746 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:18:24 -0800

Does this solution work for ME?

>-----Original Message-----
>not to make this too difficult, but lose the win 98 and
update your computer to win2k pro or winxp. . . then you
can learn to set
>up local security policies--you can get there using the
computer management console, and there's lots of settings
that you can
>configure to "lock down" virtually any application,
including internet explorer. . .
>
>and you do NOT need to be using active directory--you can
do this with simple local security policies, and augment
using access
>permissions on files, folders, and applications, as
necessary, if security policies don't do exactly what you
want. . . the big
>thing is to NOT run the os as the administrator all the
time--bad juju if you do that because the administrator
account has full
>access privileges by default. . .
>
>create individual accounts, one for each user (kid), on
the machine, and force them to use their own account and
not someone
>elses's. . .
>
>windows 98/98se simply does not have functionality built
into it to do what you want without
>buying/installing/configuring/maintaining third-party
software (such as fortress, foolproof, and others). . .
>
>i'm a tech support guy in a major high school, and
believe me--you don't want to mess around with third-party
security because kids
>easily search on the internet (like at school when you're
not watching) to find the many ways to disable and get
around third-party
>security software. . . without spending major money and
time, most of which the kids usually don't have, it's much
more difficult
>to routinely "hack" the security features in win2k or
winxp. . .
>
>if you'd rather use a mac, then upgrade to mac os-x and
you can pretty much do the same thing using permissions
for the various
>accounts, but it's really not as easy as using win2k or
winxp security policies. . .
>
>dolface wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find out if there's a way to password
internet explorer so that it doesn't turn on
>> I have four children in the house and I don't want them
to have access to the internet at all when i am not around
to supervise
>> I'm running Win 98SE
>> with a LAN conection to cable internet
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