On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:26:05 -0500, James Egan <jegan472@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
>My sister-in-law will be staying with us, and she uses my wife's PC
>running Vista home premium SP1. The last time she stayed with us she
>installed a bunch of software on her old Windows XP PC. We want to
>prevent her from installing software on this new PC. Does Vista have any
>mechanism which would allow us to prevent software from being installed?
>I'm thinking at minimum of creating a non-admin account for her to use.
>And no, asking her to NOT install software will not work with this woman!
><g>
Get an external drive, image the system to that drive. When the
be-atch is gone, restore the system from that image.