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Originally posted by Chewie UK@29 March 2004 - 20:06
What version of Windows are you using?
If you're using Windows XP Professional, you can set all other peoples' accounts to User which will not allow them to install programs or make changes to system files.
You can't make every account a User because you need an Administrator account active to be able to make changes to the system, so you'd just give yourself a password and make yourself the only Administrator.
Similar options are available in Win2000 & WinNT, although Win9x/me don't have the feature. I don't think WinXP Home has the feature either.
i just wanna add to that, if you do it this way and someone has a game or program which they want to install, to quickly allow them to install it just right click the setup file and click run as...and you type in your username and password but it stays in the limited account while they install. they will not be able to run anything other than that installation so it will still be safe to do.