Loading different startup/background processes per user in XP

[robert]

A friend of mine has kids and he wants to know if he can start
up the family computer and load different processes/tasks/programs/utilities
than when his kids startup the computer. For example if you have norton
virus program running can you start up your computer and have that
load - but - when the kids log on they don't load that ? If so - how ?
I'm NOT talking about merely removing a program from the kids start
menu. thanks for any info . Robert

 

[rifleman]

|A friend of mine has kids and he wants to know if he can start
|up the family computer and load different processes/tasks/programs/utilities
|than when his kids startup the computer. For example if you have norton
|virus program running can you start up your computer and have that
|load - but - when the kids log on they don't load that ? If so - how ?
|I'm NOT talking about merely removing a program from the kids start
|menu. thanks for any info . Robert
|
|
|
I would have thought it was IMPERATIVE to have as many security measures
as possible load up when the kids fire up the computer!

 

[robert]

|A friend of mine has kids and he wants to know if he can start
|up the family computer and load different processes/tasks/programs/utilities
|than when his kids startup the computer. For example if you have norton
|virus program running can you start up your computer and have that
|load - but - when the kids log on they don't load that ? If so - how ?
|I'm NOT talking about merely removing a program from the kids start
|menu. thanks for any info . Robert
|
|
|
I would have thought it was IMPERATIVE to have as many security measures
as possible load up when the kids fire up the computer!

Dear mr. rifleman
the norton thing was an EXAMPLE . While it is refreshing to know
that people actually worry about the health of strangers computers
the question was actually about how to acomplish the task of de-lineating
startup processes among users of the same computer. robert

 

[Malke]

Dear mr. rifleman
the norton thing was an EXAMPLE . While it is refreshing to know
that people actually worry about the health of strangers computers
the question was actually about how to acomplish the task of
de-lineating startup processes among users of the same computer.
robert

Robert, this is a very interesting question. I was hoping you'd get an
expert answer, but since you haven't yet, I'm going to give you an
expert guess that the answer is "it depends on the program". I think
programs that are set to run either as services and/or are designed to
do this like antivirus and firewall programs will run for everyone.
After all, you *want* those programs to run globally. Other programs
that are *not* in the All Users Startup folder in the Start menu will
*not* run for everyone. I know you can put AOL Instant Messenger (as an
example) in one account's Startup folder and it will run and yet not
run in another account where it is not in the Startup folder.

Cheers,

Malke

 

[Malke]

Dear mr. rifleman
the norton thing was an EXAMPLE . While it is refreshing to know
that people actually worry about the health of strangers computers
the question was actually about how to acomplish the task of
de-lineating startup processes among users of the same computer.
robert

Robert, as an addendum to my previous post, maybe you *can* set things
up completely differently (unlike my previous guess). It occurs to me
that I've heard Leo Laporte of TechTV say that he creates different
profiles in XP - one for gaming for instance where almost nothing runs
in the background, including antivirus.

Malke

 

[Malke]

Robert, as an addendum to my previous post, maybe you *can* set things
up completely differently (unlike my previous guess). It occurs to me
that I've heard Leo Laporte of TechTV say that he creates different
profiles in XP - one for gaming for instance where almost nothing runs
in the background, including antivirus.

Malke

And *another* addendum - sorry - but it's Friday ;-). It now occurs to
me that the special "gaming" version that Leo Laporte made was a dual
boot of a "regular" XP installation and an "optimized for gaming"
installation, not just different user accounts. So I do think that my
second post was closer to right. Unless someone else can comment
authoritatively?

Malke