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as title people, i am after a proggy to keep the kids off my pc, any ideas?
Proggy to keep pesky kids off my pc
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they know how to bypass the login
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Get a case with a lockable front door and keep the key with you at all times?
Sorry, I have no idea
lol...
its a pain, what they do is on the login screen they ctrl-alt-del delete my name and type in admin and it just by-passes the login, easy as that
Then perhaps you should have just renamed the admin account, and added a password?
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i have tried that, as soon as it goes to login, they do what i said, and it by-passes any name, login, password, everything, windows just fires up
Go to control panel -> user accounts, and password all the accounts.
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there is only my account on my pc, no matter what i do they bypass it, we all know the windows login is floored
Try logging in using safe mode, then going to user accounts.
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Try a swift whack every time you catch them using your computer! Problem solved 
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lol, to all, i can't believe that they can bypass the login like that, there must be a proggy about to do what i want
its not flawed, its flawed if its not set up correctly as by default, windows leaves the "administrator" account without a password.
start-->run-->control userpasswords2-->advanced-->advanced-->users. set a password for the admin account, set one for yours, disable guest login etc etc.
that, or your kids are super geniuses.. or a bios password, theres no getting around that, unless the super geniuses know how to clear a bios by taking the battery out?
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I'd be VERY, VERY surprised if, once you've set a strong administrator password, they are able to get round it "just like that" - if so - get your kids to tell Microsoft how they're doing it - because there'll be a few million computer systems around the world running Windows that'll require a pretty urgent security update.
Or in other words, either you've not set the passwords right, or strong enough...
Or in other words, either you've not set the passwords right, or strong enough...