My mum has decided to take in foreign exchange students to supplement her meagre pension. She's putting them in a room housing her desktop PC - a good idea in that the swine will retreat to their room and stay out of her hair. However, giving unhindered access could be problematic - I can see me being called around to restore a disk image on a weekly basis...
What I have done so far is setup a limited account. With my admin account, I've fiddled with gpedit to disallow tampering with system tray items, and right click context menus. For the partitions housing her photo backups etc I'm denying all access. I tried to deploy K9 web filter to stop access to dodgy sites but this caused havoc - it wouldn't allow any access to any sites at all.
I'm new to this though and I have no access to tray items on my admin account now either. How do I modify a limited user account whilst leaving mine untouched?
I also considered using steadystate or deepfreeze but the PC is sluggish to start with and it could be a bit of a mither.
So, how would you go about it all?
Thanks!
What I have done so far is setup a limited account. With my admin account, I've fiddled with gpedit to disallow tampering with system tray items, and right click context menus. For the partitions housing her photo backups etc I'm denying all access. I tried to deploy K9 web filter to stop access to dodgy sites but this caused havoc - it wouldn't allow any access to any sites at all.
I'm new to this though and I have no access to tray items on my admin account now either. How do I modify a limited user account whilst leaving mine untouched?
I also considered using steadystate or deepfreeze but the PC is sluggish to start with and it could be a bit of a mither.
So, how would you go about it all?
Thanks!
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