On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:19:00 -0700, artist4hire
<artist4hire@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Thank you "Brink" for responding. I greatly appreciate it!! I am not as
>"tech savvy" as my son (he's 15) 
Even though I am listed as the
>"administrator", he changes his account to administrator also, even after I
>changed him to a standard user. I changed my password. On your regular account, but what on the built-in Admin account? If
you've not set a password for that, he can easily access it and do
whatever he wishes.
References to the built-in account were in Brink's reply and are in
the quoted material below.
Will this keep him
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>from changing his account back to an administrator account once I change him
>to a standard account??? I appologize if I seem to be repeating >.<
>thanks!!
>Theresa
>
>"Brink" wrote:
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>>
>> artist4hire;752131 Wrote: Quote:
>> > I am the administrator of my computer, however, my son keeps changing
>> > his
>> > user account to an administrator account. How do I stop my children
>> > from
>> > changing anything on my computer, besides locking it down? I want them
>> > to be
>> > able to use the computer but be protected as well as protecting certain
>> > files
>> > and features on my computer. I have Windows Vista. Thank you for your
>> > time
>> > and expertise.
>>
>> Hello Artist4hire,
>>
>> Be sure to have a strong password that they cannot guess created for
>> each administrator account you have on the computer. They will not be
>> able to change their account type without having to enter the
>> administrator password first. Be sure to enable the built-in
>> Administrator account and give it a password to prevent them from trying
>> to use it as a backdoor to do this.
>>
>> How to create a password for a user account:
>> User Account - Create Password
>>
>> How to enable the built-in Administrator account:
>> Administrator Account
>>
>>
>> In addition, you might check out Parental Controls to use on their
>> Standard account to help control what they can use to. This tutorial
>> will help show you how to.
>>
>> Parental Controls - Setup and Use
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps you,
>> Shawn
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brink
>>
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