Trying to prevent my 3 year old son from deleting my data

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Hi All,

I am trying to prevent my son from deleting data off of
the hard drive. I am trying to set up his account so
that he can play games but not be able to delete
anything. I am running Win XP Pro. Thank you for any
advice you may have.

HQ

 

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HQ;
Password all other accounts especially those with Administrator
access.
Give him a Limited account.
Use NTFS file system
See this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/private.htm

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"HQ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3b3601c4729a$a55d9440$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to prevent my son from deleting data off of
> the hard drive. I am trying to set up his account so
> that he can play games but not be able to delete
> anything. I am running Win XP Pro. Thank you for any
> advice you may have.
>
> HQ

 

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1. Use NTFS on all disk drives
2. Limit his account as a "User"
3. Run cmd.exe
4. At DOS prompt, run "cacls D:\ /t /g administrators:F system:F Papa:F
Tony:R",
assuming your account is called Papa, and your little son's account is
called Tony
5 Repeat step 4 on all disk drives, like E:\ F:\ G:\ etc
6 On his game disk run "cacls E:\Games /t /g administrators:F system:F
Papa:F Tony:F"
assuming your account is called Papa, and your little son's account is
called Tony,
and his Game folder is called E:\Games(Maybe the games are not installed
to one position.
that would be complicated if so)