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Posted by Leperous on Thu Mar 4th at 9:45pm 2004

Heh, that's pretty cool. Although anyone who's ever used DOS can easily circumvent it :/



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Posted by OtZman on Thu Mar 4th at 10:09pm 2004

Yeah I know, but it's enough to keep my little brother away from my stuff.

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Take a look at Tweak Xp pro if you've the time

http://www.totalidea.com/frameset-products.htm

This Tweak XP thing does the same thing to the folders. When I tried this shareware I looked a folder and forgot to remove the lock after the 30 tries(very annoying). It took a while before I noticed the strange name...

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Posted by Gollum on Fri Mar 5th at 1:58pm 2004

Well my paranoia has gone away, since I've moved all my personal files into my user account. However, I'm deeply unimpressed by the WinXP user management tools. There's only one choice: "administrator" or "limited user". It seems that limited users can STILL install/uninstall some programs, and create files and folders outside of their user account.

I'd like to stop limited users from doing anything except using already-installed programs, changing superficial personal settings, and saving data inside their user account (up to a quota limit).





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Posted by OtZman on Fri Mar 5th at 3:19pm 2004

? posted by Gollum

Well my paranoia has gone away, since I've moved all my personal files into my user account. However, I'm deeply unimpressed by the WinXP user management tools.

I agree

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Mar 5th at 3:30pm 2004

To do all the proper user administration you need xp pro or 2000 pro I preffer 2000 cos its more like NT4 (well it would be cos it was called NT5 up till about a year before its release) and I had quite alot of experience with NT4 when I was administrating my schools network in my free periods.

Any way the pro version has all the stuff cos its made for buisnesses and not for home use and with the pro version you can stop users from installing/uninstalling and looking at files they havent created no matter where they are on the hd.

I know you probably already knew that but I thourght I'd let you know anyway.

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Posted by Leperous on Fri Mar 5th at 3:44pm 2004


Although remember how Win98 had a tendancy to 'decay' over time? WinXP seems to have the same thing with the user preferences/switching gubbins



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 6th at 2:33am 2004

*caugh*..

i know where a 2000pro is

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Posted by Crono on Sat Mar 6th at 3:20am 2004

? quote:

Although remember how Win98 had a tendancy to 'decay' over time? WinXP seems to have the same thing with the user preferences/switching gubbins


That's called "extensive use of global variables in a working environment". They loose track of what variables are for what, so other developers use them and all of a sudden if you run paint at the same time as you create a file, that file is marked read only . This isn't specifically the case, but things like that happen. [addsig]




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