setting up user on internet

[hughie]

Hi

I have just been advised to put on an administrator account, to stop my son downloading form the net and to stop him screwing up my machine. Which I have done, can anybody tell me how to set up internet access on the user account and how to disable the user from downloading files?

Many thanks Hughie

 

[etaf]

i dont think you can stop him downloading, MAY BE WRONG, I dont know vista that weell, but in order to use the interent you have to download the files, pictures, these go into your temporary interent files

setting up a user account (NOT administrator), will stop him from installing programs onto the PC and playiong with some of the settings etc

 

[shinybeast]

Yes, make your account (which would be administrator) password protected so he can't use it. Create a new user account for your son and make it "Limited" when you create it in User Accounts. XP will require you to create another Admin account before you create a limited, so don't let him use that one. You can password protect the second admin account and remove it from the welcome screen if that's what you use (rather than the Username/Password Login box).