Limiting parental controls to standard users only is a big handic

[Guest ac]

i have Vista and is Microsoft doing anything about letting an admintrator

user have parental controls. there are more than one adminstrator on our pc.

Right now only standard users can have controls on them, but this limits them

to control their pc as an adminitrator. All I want is to control their access

to the internet, they shouldnt have to get permission everytime they want to

delete a file etc. I want restriction only for internet related access but

want them to be able to have liberty as an admin for other applications etc.

[Guest Alun Jones]

"ac" <ac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:6CBC8FE1-3887-4098-BC78-7573798CEC01@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> i have Vista and is Microsoft doing anything about letting an admintrator

> user have parental controls. there are more than one adminstrator on our

> pc.

> Right now only standard users can have controls on them, but this limits

> them

> to control their pc as an adminitrator. All I want is to control their

> access

> to the internet, they shouldnt have to get permission everytime they want

> to

> delete a file etc. I want restriction only for internet related access but

> want them to be able to have liberty as an admin for other applications

> etc.</span>

 

There's an old argument in theology that goes something like this:

 

If God is truly omnipotent, then that means he can create a rock that even

he can't lift, right?

 

The same is true here - if you allow parental controls to restrict an

administrator, then who gets to set those controls in place?

 

Super-Administrator?

 

No, Administrator is it - if you're an administrator, you can do pretty much

anything to the system, or give yourself enough powers to get the same

effect. If you were able to turn parental controls on your kids' accounts

while they are logging on as administrator, they'd only turn them back off

again.

 

Alun.

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