I've set up a Win2K Pro system for my little girl so that she can play a few
games. Problem is, as soon as my back's turned, she likes to start
clicking everywhere else.

I want to protect the computer as much as possible and limit her actions to
just launching and playing games. I think I may need Group Policies but
it's not a subject I know a lot about.

Can anyone give me a 'leg up' to an appropriate knowledge source for such
GPs or anything else that I might need.

Thanks.

One of the first steps would be to create a seperate logon account for the
machine which has only standard user rights which will prevent the majority
of problems. I would then consider modifying the start menu to remove any
utility of tool icons that are not important to her. I would then also
recommend changing her user profile NTUSER.DAT file to an NTUSER.MAN file
which will prevent changes being saved to the profile when she logs off.

The problem with a stand alone machine is that if you configure local policy
on the machine it is not by default able to diffirentiate users. If you have
created your daughter as a new user however you can then create a local
policy which removes access to many of the desktop features and then
configure the %Windir%\system32\Group Policy folder to deny administrators
read. This is non standard but will allow any other users of the machine to
process group policy but not the administrator.

Dave Britt

"bluetreetop" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've set up a Win2K Pro system for my little girl so that she can play a
> few
> games. Problem is, as soon as my back's turned, she likes to start
> clicking everywhere else.
>
> I want to protect the computer as much as possible and limit her actions
> to
> just launching and playing games. I think I may need Group Policies but
> it's not a subject I know a lot about.
>
> Can anyone give me a 'leg up' to an appropriate knowledge source for such
> GPs or anything else that I might need.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>

Thanks for all of this, Dave.

I would have thought your first few suggestions combined should do the trick
but I am also intrigued by the last. Though I guess I need to be careful
as, presumably, if I slip up in preventing Administrator access to the
folder, I guess that I could end up 'locking myself out'.

Thanks again.



"Dave Britt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> One of the first steps would be to create a seperate logon account for the
> machine which has only standard user rights which will prevent the
majority
> of problems. I would then consider modifying the start menu to remove any
> utility of tool icons that are not important to her. I would then also
> recommend changing her user profile NTUSER.DAT file to an NTUSER.MAN file
> which will prevent changes being saved to the profile when she logs off.
>
> The problem with a stand alone machine is that if you configure local
policy
> on the machine it is not by default able to diffirentiate users. If you
have
> created your daughter as a new user however you can then create a local
> policy which removes access to many of the desktop features and then
> configure the %Windir%\system32\Group Policy folder to deny administrators
> read. This is non standard but will allow any other users of the machine
to
> process group policy but not the administrator.
>
> Dave Britt
>
> "bluetreetop" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:vjjeg.16478$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I've set up a Win2K Pro system for my little girl so that she can play a
> > few
> > games. Problem is, as soon as my back's turned, she likes to start
> > clicking everywhere else.
> >
> > I want to protect the computer as much as possible and limit her actions
> > to
> > just launching and playing games. I think I may need Group Policies but
> > it's not a subject I know a lot about.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a 'leg up' to an appropriate knowledge source for
such
> > GPs or anything else that I might need.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>