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Running windows xp home with only one adminstartor user account set-up that
is password protected. Don't want to set up any other accounts because I
want to know when my kids are using the computer. Is there a way to block
internet downloads on this administrator account without changing the
settings to limited? Want to prevent the kids from download anything
without my permission. Thanks for the help.
 
kah said:
Running windows xp home with only one adminstartor user account
set-up that is password protected. Don't want to set up any other
accounts because I want to know when my kids are using the computer.
Is there a way to block internet downloads on this administrator
account without changing the settings to limited? Want to prevent
the kids from download anything without my permission. Thanks for
the help.
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Your'e taking some mighty dangerous chances letting the kids use an admin
account, expecially the only one. Apparently you're not aware ofr the other
things that can be done from the admin account; 'net access is the least of
your worries right now.
Give them limited accounts and go from there. Then, with a little
research, you can set it up for them almost however you'd like it to be.
But don't let kids have admin accounts if all they're doing is playing. You
will about 99% surely be sorry, I'm sorry to say.

HTH
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kah said:
Running windows xp home with only one adminstartor user account set-up that
is password protected. Don't want to set up any other accounts because I
want to know when my kids are using the computer. Is there a way to block
internet downloads on this administrator account without changing the
settings to limited? Want to prevent the kids from download anything
without my permission. Thanks for the help.
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Sorry, but that's really *not* a great approach.

You should not allow *anyone* to use the Admin account as a standard user
account. It's much too easy to damage an account, and if it's the only
one, you'll *have* to reinstall, likely losing time, data and settings in
the process.

You can easily check activity times on an account via the system logs.

If you want to control access to the PC, and there are very, very good
reasons to, consider software like NetNanny.

I've installed that for various clients lately, and it's worked pretty well.
It's pretty configurable, allows you to restrict times of usage, and there
is a 30-day trial version available. If it meets your needs, it's not
expensive, and you can buy a license key that converts the trial version to
retail.

http://www.netnanny.com/

The key to all these is security - if they guess the passwords, they can do
what they like.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
Sorry, but that's really *not* a great approach.

You should not allow *anyone* to use the Admin account as a standard
user account. It's much too easy to damage an account, and if it's
the only one, you'll *have* to reinstall, likely losing time, data
and settings in the process.

You can easily check activity times on an account via the system logs.

If you want to control access to the PC, and there are very, very good
reasons to, consider software like NetNanny.

I've installed that for various clients lately, and it's worked
pretty well. It's pretty configurable, allows you to restrict times
of usage, and there is a 30-day trial version available. If it
meets your needs, it's not expensive, and you can buy a license key
that converts the trial version to retail.

http://www.netnanny.com/

The key to all these is security - if they guess the passwords, they
can do what they like.

HTH
-pk
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Actually, even IE's Content Advisor, included with it, isn't a "bad"
feature; it'll work fairly well but isn't hard to get around.

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