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From: gaz@apollo.HP.COM (Gary Zaidenweber)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Problems with children using Windows3
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Date: 19 Nov 90 21:36:00 GMT
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From article <719@retix.retix.COM>, by garry@retix.retix.COM (Garry Star):
> I have a 4 year old son that uses my PC for games.  He has
> learned to 'get around' in windows and play his favorite games
> (minesweeper, paintbrush, and solitaire).  In general I think it's
> great and am very proud of his abilities.
> 
> The problem is that he is just as happy clicking and dragging any
> of the icons he sees.  I don't want to discourage his curiosity,
> but I have found that windows will no longer run in enhanced mode
> [yes a four year old on a 25mhz 386 ;-)].  I will probably end up
> just re-installing windows but the larger concern is how to limit this
> powerful environment so that he can't do any real damage (format
> hard disk, erase all files, etc.).
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I've got the same problem, 4-year-old on a 386! I'm probably
going to make her a separate 10MB partition and a floppy which
she would be "required" to boot off of that would make my main
partition read-only. If it works, I'll be a happy camper, if 
not I'll probably buy her her own PC (XT with EGA can be had
for around $500) and tell her to keep the mits off of mine 
(I use it to run her and her sister's daycare center and can't 
afford to risk undetectable data corruption -- yes I do daily 
backups, but not daily restores.) I'd rather spend the money 
than take the risk.

Its neat to see how the world has changed.


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