Restricting User Access

paintstone · June 18th, 2006

I am the administrator on my computer, I have a roomate who I would like to give limited access the computer. I do want to restrict certain programs and several folders to me only. XP pro sp2 and I think this is a fairly simple task but I dont know this.

What would your suggestions be?

hooloovoo · June 18th, 2006

Make a new user (Control Panel > User Accounts) and when asked, just give it limited access. If I remember rightly, you can't created a limited account unless you have one with admin access in addition to the actual Administrator account. You will also be asked if you want to make your documents folder private. Be very careful with this as it will make life very difficult if you ever install a different OS or even just reinstall windows and use a different username.

paintstone · June 19th, 2006

How did you get your computers stats to automatically be shown at the end of your comment ?

Paint

KanedA · June 19th, 2006

also make sure that your partitions are in NTSF format, so that you'll be able to make some folders access restrictions

**Shendo** · June 19th, 2006

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Originally Posted by paintstone

How did you get your computers stats to automatically be shown at the end of your comment ?

Paint

That is called signature, you can put anything that you want, as you can see
hooloovoo put the PC specs.

JKKDARK · June 19th, 2006

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Originally Posted by paintstone

How did you get your computers stats to automatically be shown at the end of your comment ?

Go to 'User CP' and 'Edit Signature'

RF · June 19th, 2006

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Originally Posted by paintstone

How did you get your computers stats to automatically be shown at the end of your comment ?

Paint

Please do not post off topic, and refer to the forum help features.

Norbi · June 20th, 2006

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Originally Posted by paintstone

I am the administrator on my computer, I have a roomate who I would like to give limited access the computer. I do want to restrict certain programs and several folders to me only. XP pro sp2 and I think this is a fairly simple task but I dont know this.

What would your suggestions be?

You can also simply create a guest account if that's enough.

June 18th, 2006	#1 (permalink)
paintstone New & Learning Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 6	Restricting User Access I am the administrator on my computer, I have a roomate who I would like to give limited access the computer. I do want to restrict certain programs and several folders to me only. XP pro sp2 and I think this is a fairly simple task but I dont know this. What would your suggestions be?

June 18th, 2006	#2 (permalink)
hooloovoo Craptastical Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: England Posts: 145	Make a new user (Control Panel > User Accounts) and when asked, just give it limited access. If I remember rightly, you can't created a limited account unless you have one with admin access in addition to the actual Administrator account. You will also be asked if you want to make your documents folder private. Be very careful with this as it will make life very difficult if you ever install a different OS or even just reinstall windows and use a different username. __________________ OS : Windows XP Pro SP2 CPU: Intel P4 2.8GHz HT 800MHz FSB RAM: 2048MB DDR 3200 HDD: 1xMaxtor 250GB, 1xSeagate 200GB, 1xWD 200GB, etc GFX: NVidia GeForce FX5950u 256MB

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paintstone New & Learning Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 6	pc stats How did you get your computers stats to automatically be shown at the end of your comment ? Paint

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KanedA PS2 PAL[v9] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: PolanD Posts: 5,288	also make sure that your partitions are in NTSF format, so that you'll be able to make some folders access restrictions __________________

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