Win 98 2 person access?

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Eskay

Hi all.
Is there a program that will keep my young grandson out of the main part of
his parents computer,but will give him access to his own games?
He knows how to spell his own name,and if his parents part is password
protected he should not be able to get into their part of the computer.
Thanks for your help...Eskay....
 
9x doesn't have the same kind of protection as the later versions of
Windows. Your best bet is going to be either;

1. Dual boot (1 partition for him, the other for his parents, cumbersome...
but worth it)
2. Use the POLEDIT.exe program on the Windows CD (though it is VERY limited
as to what it can do for you)

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Steven Burn
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Don't know if it's any good, but Childproof claims to do:

Child Proof is a program that protect your computer from children by
accident pressing wrong buttons or key. It hides all windows, the toolbar at
the bottom and the desktop and replaces it by a toolbar with programs you
allow your child to execute. This avoids most problems when children use the
computer, but not all. Please read the documentation before starting Child
Proof. For more information see the readme file.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/cproof.html

HTH

grtzBloned
 
Bloned said:
Don't know if it's any good, but Childproof claims to do:
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Looks like your screwed if something goes wrong though.........

"Child Proof is longer maintained or developed further."

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Steven Burn
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Steven said:
Looks like your screwed if something goes wrong though.........

"Child Proof is longer maintained or developed further."
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You're right, the longer I look it at, the more I'm sure it will never get
on my machine.
I guess this is one of very few occasions I would almost recommend to
upgrade to XP and setup a second user account.

grtzBloned
 
Bloned said:
You're right, the longer I look it at, the more I'm sure it will never get
on my machine.
I guess this is one of very few occasions I would almost recommend to
upgrade to XP and setup a second user account.
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Good god no......!, if you must have this type of security, go with Windows
2000 instead (much better than XP IMHO)

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Steven Burn
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Steven said:
Good god no......!, if you must have this type of security, go with
Windows 2000 instead (much better than XP IMHO)
Click to expand...

Right again, (I said "almost") I'm so used to my win98SE that I completely
overlooked the possibility of win2k.
 
Hi all.
Is there a program that will keep my young grandson out of the main part of
his parents computer,but will give him access to his own games?
He knows how to spell his own name,and if his parents part is password
protected he should not be able to get into their part of the computer.
Thanks for your help...Eskay....
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Parents Friend might be worth investigating :

http://www.parents-friend.de/index1.htm


Regards, John.

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This is not a secure way of doing it, but it might work.
Setup for multi user, Start-Control Panel-Users, and set a profile up for the grandfolks.
Teach grandson to start his stuff by clicking cancel or you can give him his own profile.
This way his desktop is set just for him.


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Bloned said:
Right again, (I said "almost") I'm so used to my win98SE that I completely
overlooked the possibility of win2k.
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Well I've listed it on my Security pages for years, installed it on a
number of clients machines running Win98SE and WinME and it works
perfectly. It doesn't need to be developed further.

What a stupid reason to consider changing OS 'cause you're scared to run
a tested freeware program...

weird.

Son Of Spy

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Son Of Spy said:
Well I've listed it on my Security pages for years, installed it on a
number of clients machines running Win98SE and WinME and it works
perfectly. It doesn't need to be developed further.
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Unfortunately, not everyone's system, or PC experience, is the same as the
rest of us, and if one should run into problems, they're buggered unless
they can find someone such as yourself, thats actually used the program
before, as the developers aren't supporting it (atleast, thats the
impression I got).

What a stupid reason to consider changing OS 'cause you're scared to run
a tested freeware program...

weird.
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</snip>

Scared has nothing to do with it. I mentioned going to W2000 instead as it
has support for multi-users etc, built in, along with better security
features.

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
ABScopyman said:
This is not a secure way of doing it, but it might work.
Setup for multi user, Start-Control Panel-Users, and set a profile up for the grandfolks.
Teach grandson to start his stuff by clicking cancel or you can give him his own profile.
This way his desktop is set just for him.
Click to expand...

Then child learns just how easy it is to bypass that, then kaboom... parent
realizes setting it up was completely pointless.

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Son said:
Well I've listed it on my Security pages for years, installed it on a
number of clients machines running Win98SE and WinME and it works
perfectly. It doesn't need to be developed further.

What a stupid reason to consider changing OS 'cause you're scared to
run a tested freeware program...

weird.

Son Of Spy
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Didn't hear anything so far about it being tested, did now, so I guess the
program a solution for the original poster.
And I personally have no need for the program and I'm definitely not
considering changing away from win98SE, well, maybe to Linux someday.

grtzBloned
 
Good god no......!, if you must have this type of security, go with Windows
2000 instead (much better than XP IMHO)
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WinXP does just as good a job as long as you remember to change the
kids account to a standard user one and password yours.
 
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Setup for multi user, Start-Control Panel-Users, and set a profile up
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Teach grandson to start his stuff by clicking cancel or you can give
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This way his desktop is set just for him. <br>
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Don't know if it's any good, but Childproof claims to do:

Child Proof is a program that protect your computer from children by
accident pressing wrong buttons or key. It hides all windows, the toolbar at
the bottom and the desktop and replaces it by a toolbar with programs you
allow your child to execute. This avoids most problems when children use the
computer, but not all. Please read the documentation before starting Child
Proof. For more information see the readme file.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/cproof.html

HTH

grtzBloned
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Thanks very much,I downloaded it and tried it.May be just what we need for
a while..He will get his own computer sometime..
Eskay.
 
John Fitzsimons said:
Parents Friend might be worth investigating :

http://www.parents-friend.de/index1.htm


Regards, John.

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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/prb00040.htm

A simple version of Program Manager which allows access to a limited number
of programs. Works with Windows 3.1 and 95.



Note by this poster that it *WILL* work with NT ME 98 2K and XP as well
(I've tried it).
 
*ProteanThread* wrote in
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/prb00040.htm

A simple version of Program Manager which allows access to a
limited number of programs. Works with Windows 3.1 and 95.



Note by this poster that it *WILL* work with NT ME 98 2K and XP as
well (I've tried it).
Click to expand...

Unfortunately it isn't there any longer.

Page Not Found

The Server was unable to find the following page:

Page [KidProof.zip]
User [PeterBalch]
Category [homepages].

Brat!
 
Kurt said:
*ProteanThread* wrote in
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/prb00040.htm

A simple version of Program Manager which allows access to a
limited number of programs. Works with Windows 3.1 and 95.



Note by this poster that it *WILL* work with NT ME 98 2K and XP as
well (I've tried it).
Click to expand...

Unfortunately it isn't there any longer.

Page Not Found

The Server was unable to find the following page:

Page [KidProof.zip]
User [PeterBalch]
Category [homepages].

Brat!
Click to expand...


Just tried it NS and Moz. Worked for me.
 
*ProteanThread* said:
Kurt said:
*ProteanThread* wrote in
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/prb00040.htm

A simple version of Program Manager which allows access to a
limited number of programs. Works with Windows 3.1 and 95.



Note by this poster that it *WILL* work with NT ME 98 2K and XP as
well (I've tried it).
Click to expand...

Unfortunately it isn't there any longer.

Page Not Found

The Server was unable to find the following page:

Page [KidProof.zip]
User [PeterBalch]
Category [homepages].

Brat!
Click to expand...


Just tried it NS and Moz. Worked for me.
Click to expand...


Ok, just tried it again and now it didn't work. I emailed the author.....
 
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