User Rights

[Conor]

I use Windows XP Professional and each member of my
family have their own log-on. I'm set as Computer
Administrator and everyone else as Limited. But my
daughter is 7 and she still has too many rights, causing
her wreck the system yesterday. Is there anyway I can
disable right-click, run, access to C: drive etc

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Where you using NTFS for the filesystem where the
operating system was installed ??
This should have kept a limited user from breaking
too terribly much.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

A Limited User on a properly configured NTFS files system should allow at
most destruction of that particular user's profile, and should have no
effect on the other configured accounts or general computer operation - that
is unless the File System is FAT32 (then all bets are off) or the Local
Security or Group Policies have been altered to allow additional access for
the Limited User.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

My guess is that you have an upgrade from 9x or a conversion from FAT32
to NTFS. Either of these circumstances can cause the standard file
permissions to be too lenient.

If this is the case, Roger Abell is brave enough to tell you how to
change the file system permissions using a template. Or was I the only
one foolhardy enough to describe how to do that? I can't remember.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

No Kent, I believe it was MS (once they changed the KB
to no longer indicate one could use it in Home edition)
rather than either of us.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222
with the /areas filestore switch
(possibly followed by some cleanup for installed
software that may get hit with an NTFS change)