Blocking access of Control Panel? (2 Viewers)

[Lord Ac]

My dad wants me to control my brother and sisters computer acess. The way I thought up was putting a password on the user account. Thus, then need to ask me to log them in every time they want to play.

Sounds good, right?

Unfortunately the weasels figured out how to go to control panel and remove password under the users option. Is there any program, etc I can get that will stop them from getting to Control Panel?

I tried creating new user names for them, but that causes too many problems (ie. they cant access 'My Documents' and several games have their startup files in here) ....

Does anyone have any solutions ... or ... a better idea?

Thanks,

Ac

 

[velox]

Make individual accounts and make them limited users not computer administrators. This can be done via the windows xp contorl panel. (assuming ur using windows xp).

Thats the best way. You transfer some of "My documents" into the shared documents folder

 

[Lord Ac]

How does that restrict them though? They can just go and play the computer as a limited user then ... and even if I password the limited user account they go and chnage the password to suit themselves ...

Ac

 

[AsyLum]

I have the same problem.

Heres how i fixed it.

Create individual accounts. Make yours/dad's the admin one. Their one with user.

Now go into the folder of the games, and right click. Go to security tab (if its not there, folder options > use simple file sharing (untick that) ) Now set the properties so that the people from the group users, have no access to the folder where the games are located.

That should fix things

 

[jonathan109]

I've got a few ways you can do it.

Easy Route.

Disable User Accounts Control Panel File.

First navigate to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

Show hidden files and folders, go into your dllcache, look for the file called nusrmgr.cpl, rename that to nusrmgrbak.cpl, now go back up one directory level, i.e. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, look for the same file, (nusrmgr.cpl), rename it again to nusrmgrbak.cpl.

This temporarily disables it in a shabby manner, but it definitely works, you're siblings don't have a large enough brain to know where control panel extensions are located.

Another alternative, try what wrx said.

Another alternative, if you're running Windows XP Pro, go into Group Policy Editor, to disable Control Panel Access, Start > Run, gpedit.msc.

Another smart way i forgot myself, stupidly, is, when you make a user account, you know you can actually set it so the password cannot be changed by the user logged in right?

 

[MedNez]

Or you could install TweakUI, hide all their control panel extensions from view, and they can get into the control panel, but won't be able to do anything. Just make sure you don't install TweakUI to the Start Menu where they can find it.

 

[golfstick]

at school they had something that stopped us from changing screen resolution on computers and stuff like that. all the CP options were frozen

 

[Grizzly]

at school they had something that stopped us from changing screen resolution on computers and stuff like that. all the CP options were frozen

Same at UNI, can't even up My Computer

 

[Lord Ac]

Thanks guys, I will see which one works best.

Ac

 

[AntiHyper]

at school they had something that stopped us from changing screen resolution on computers and stuff like that. all the CP options were frozen

Hehe thats also the case in my school.
But there is a free program that requires no installations (would run under Limited Account...) it's called ResChange and i just write up a batch file to run it with the desired parameters