XP Home Security 1

[Frank4d]

First, I apologize for an XP Home question here. I have one XP Home machine that my wife and three kids use. Recently my 11 y-o and 14 y-o sons find it amusing to make other user's accounts "limited", and to lock down my antivirus program so their 8 y-o brother cannot access certain websites deemed by them to be bad. They even changed my own account to "limited" (Grrr...)

I don't want to make all their accounts "limited" because that creates even more headaches for me when they try to install and run applications.

Is there a way in XP Home to change their accounts to "Power Users" or "Debugger Users" so they cannot make changes to each other's account settings or to Administrator account settings?

 

[Frank4d]

I forgot to mention, all five accounts already have passwords. Of course that has no real effect when all are administrator accounts.

 

[linney]

Power Users are not really supported in XP Home.

Windows XP Home Edition errors when using 'Control Userpasswords2' to add a user?

http://www.jsifaq.com/subM/tip6400/rh6488.htm

You really shouldn't have 5 Administrators on your machine, nobody should surf the Internet as an Administrator, only as a Limited User.

The Administrative User password should not be freely available to other users.


Here are some tips that you may find useful?

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk/main.asp?content=runasuser

294676 - HOW TO: Enable and Use the "Run As" Command When Running Programs in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294676&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

"To start a program as an administrator" in the Help and Support program.

 

[Frank4d]

Thanks Linney. The Security Console looks like it will do what I need.