Make a restricted account in vista.

[covert24]

My friend is running ultimate 32-bit and wants to make a restrictive account for his mom. He needs to be able to block certain programs as well as other things such as going into the c drive and such. The built in parental control thing doesn't do crap and we need another way to do this. Such as a program or the like. Thanks to whoever can help 🙂

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: covert24
My friend is running ultimate 32-bit and wants to make a restrictive account for his mom. He needs to be able to block certain programs as well as other things such as going into the c drive and such. The built in parental control thing doesn't do crap and we need another way to do this. Such as a program or the like. Thanks to whoever can help 🙂

Creating a limit account will do what you like, and the parental controls certainly have application/web controls. I suggest you look at them again.

 

[mechBgon]

You could also use NTFS file-system permissions to limit what her account can get into.


(LOL @ the Parental Controls being used on the parents :laugh: )

 

[covert24]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: covert24
My friend is running ultimate 32-bit and wants to make a restrictive account for his mom. He needs to be able to block certain programs as well as other things such as going into the c drive and such. The built in parental control thing doesn't do crap and we need another way to do this. Such as a program or the like. Thanks to whoever can help 🙂

Creating a limit account will do what you like, and the parental controls certainly have application/web controls. I suggest you look at them again.

i know it has it built in but being that you can just right click, run as administrator and your good to go is retarded. there are very easy ways to get around it and its dumb and not worth it.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: covert24

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: covert24
My friend is running ultimate 32-bit and wants to make a restrictive account for his mom. He needs to be able to block certain programs as well as other things such as going into the c drive and such. The built in parental control thing doesn't do crap and we need another way to do this. Such as a program or the like. Thanks to whoever can help 🙂

Creating a limit account will do what you like, and the parental controls certainly have application/web controls. I suggest you look at them again.

i know it has it built in but being that you can just right click, run as administrator and your good to go is retarded. there are very easy ways to get around it and its dumb and not worth it.

But how is she getting the password for the Administrator account if she's set up as a non-Admin? You did switch her account to Standard, right?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: covert24

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: covert24
My friend is running ultimate 32-bit and wants to make a restrictive account for his mom. He needs to be able to block certain programs as well as other things such as going into the c drive and such. The built in parental control thing doesn't do crap and we need another way to do this. Such as a program or the like. Thanks to whoever can help 🙂

Creating a limit account will do what you like, and the parental controls certainly have application/web controls. I suggest you look at them again.

i know it has it built in but being that you can just right click, run as administrator and your good to go is retarded. there are very easy ways to get around it and its dumb and not worth it.

I think your confused. If *you* are an admin you can select 'run as administrator' and after a UAC prompt the application is launched with full admin rights. However, a limited user account which selects 'run as admin' needs to enter the name and password of an admnistrator...

Bill

 

[covert24]

im not confused. we logged onto her account and did run as administrator and even though there was a password on the admin account you didnt need to put it in.. What my question is, is there any other way you can make a restrictive account in ultimate without having to use the built in crap?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: covert24
im not confused. we logged onto her account and did run as administrator and even though there was a password on the admin account you didnt need to put it in.. What my question is, is there any other way you can make a restrictive account in ultimate without having to use the built in crap?

That is incorrect, if that occured that means you made the account you tested an administrator account. The process you are descibing simply doesnt happen with a limited account, they MUST provide admin credentials to upgrade.

 

[ChronoReverse]

From what has been said in this thread, it seems that you just need to set that new user account to Standard instead of Administrator.