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Danny Gottdank

I am using Windows XP Pro. Each member of my family has
their own login profile set up on this machine. We all
have administrator rights. However, I just went to
select 'internet options' on my IE web browser and I
recieved a message "RESTRICTIONS - This operation has
been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator."
Since I am DAD, that would be me. My kids and wife do
not get this error message. Can anyone walk me through
or give me an idea on how to alter this setting. We cant
figure out how this happened in the first place.

Your responses would be greatly appreciated

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Danny Gottdank said:
I am using Windows XP Pro. Each member of my family has
their own login profile set up on this machine. We all
have administrator rights. However, I just went to
select 'internet options' on my IE web browser and I
recieved a message "RESTRICTIONS - This operation has
been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator."
Since I am DAD, that would be me. My kids and wife do
not get this error message. Can anyone walk me through
or give me an idea on how to alter this setting. We cant
figure out how this happened in the first place.
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You may wish to reconsider an all-are-administrators set up where the
yunguns might not have the maturity to understand the consequences of
allowing some downloads onto the machine by reducing appropriate security
settings. I wonder how long it will take the criminals working the net to
stop infesting mostly "free porn" sites and Flash media download sites with
malicious code and start luring 8 year old girls to webpages that demand
"Please set your browser security to the lowest level to see Barbie ride her
new pony Fluffymane!".

Your computer has no way of knowing your status as DAD, of course, even if
you threaten to pull the browser over to the side of the infobahn to show it
just why it'd better do as you want. It only knows of the privilege
settings it has been set up with. I don't know the ages of your children
well enough to know whether allowing them to choose their own access scope
to the net, which administrator rights can convey, is something that can
withstand the notorious curiosity of children. I do know that if you have
boys in the 8+ years range, it can take only one instance of getting a $100
plus phone bill because they downloaded a Hentai porn autodialer to be
convinced that the notorious curiosity of children is akin to a force in
nature like Hurricanes Frances and Ivan.

TV may be the plug-in drug, but the internet is plug-in HIV.
 
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