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Only/Best solution is buy him the $299 Dell weekly special.
Then lock your own PC down, Boot Password, Single user,
password protect the Administrator account. You can play
the "Cat-&-Mouse" security (Stay out of My Account) game
but it seldom if ever works.
"Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
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>Z wrote:
>
>> Nelsonace wrote:
>>
>>> My Son and I are both set-up as Administrator on our home PC. My son
>>> was able to log on under his name, go to User Account, cnahge my account
>>> log on password and log back in under my name with full access to "My
>>> Documents" Folder. Why? how can I stop this.
>>
>>
>> Your son accessed your files the stupid way. Since you've made him Admin
>> (bad move if he can't be trusted), he could have just read your My
>> Documents files w/o changing your password (and thus tipping you off)
>>
>> Anyway, some options:
>>
>> 1. Enable EFS on your My Documents folder
>>
>> (Windows Explorer > C:\Documents and Settings\<user> > right click on My
>> Documents > Properties > General > Advanced > Encrypt contents to secure
>> data)
>>
>> 2. Use some other encryption software, like PGP
>
> EFS won't work if the son can login to the father's account. Then efs is
> transparent.
>
> --
> Rock
> MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
>