higher security for user accounts?

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This may or may not be a simple question; however my mother is having a difficult time with my teenage brother and the computer. He's well known for destroying computers by excessive downloads, visiting sketchy sites that procure MUCH spy/ad-ware, amongst other things. After getting her new computer, she set his user account on limited to avoid such incidents. He is tricky, and as figured out how to set both his account and my mother's as administrative. Is there a way to heighten security on one administrative account, or have the settings locked on only one administrative account at a time? She has already begun changing her password (which he somehow managed to get by the last time to change the settings again...) as well as never leaving the computer without logging off. Any help on this would be much appreciated
Thanks :

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Home or Pro ?
He is probably simply booting into safe mode, and making use of fact that
many
vendors leave the password of the built-in Administrator account blank.
You need to list out all admin accounts, at cmd prompt run
net localgroup administrators
and then remove the excess that he may have planted, and change the
passwords
of all remaining to strong passwords. In Home, you may need to use a Safe
Mode
boot to do this for the built-in (not a home user here).

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:16:04 -0700, "marigold_sold"

This may or may not be a simple question; however my mother is having a
difficult time with my teenage brother and the computer. He's well known
for destroying computers by excessive downloads, visiting sketchy sites
that procure MUCH spy/ad-ware, amongst other things.

I wouldn't look for a tech solution here - do you really want to bet
on staying ahead on the geekery battlefield?

Instead, I'd do one or more of:
- kick him off the PC
- encourage him to buy his own PC
- buy him a PC to do whatever he wants with

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