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From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Problems with children using Windows3
Message-ID: <127690@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 07:21:21 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.065925.14745@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us
>(Todd Day) writes:

>Anyway, has anyone found a way to protect against this sort of thing?
>Will making the group folders and the .ini files "READ ONLY" prevent
>people from changing things around?
>

What a great idea! I tried this and it works. I made my son's group read
only and then I tried deleting some apps from it. I got a dialogue box from
Windows saying that I couldn't do that because the group was protected.
Then I tried resizing the application group and exiting Windows with the
save changes option. Again, Windows informed me that it wouldn't save my
changes to the protected group.

Thanks to Todd Day for a simple and elegant solution to part of the problem.
Note that this helpful hint cannot be found in the Windows manual. It
certainly belongs there.  Also, remember that you can change filew
attributes from File Manager - I changed them with the Norton before
I realized that I could do this within Windows.

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