user profiles/ family safety

[Guest barnyb3]

Hello all,

 

I am new here so I'll explain as well as I can.

 

I am administrator using admin account/.

 

I have locked several drives from the guest account using security tab

in properties.

 

I installed family safety and windows live was set to auto complete the

password.

 

Now when I use the internet in Guest profile the family safety scanner

auto completes.

 

I want the guest profile locked down.

 

The auto complete is disabled as admin however this is not transferring

to the guest account.

 

Hopefully its an oversight and will not be too complex to solve.

 

 

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barnyb3

[Guest Malke]

barnyb3 wrote:

 

<span style="color:blue">

> I am administrator using admin account/.

>

> I have locked several drives from the guest account using security tab

> in properties.

>

> I installed family safety and windows live was set to auto complete the

> password.

>

> Now when I use the internet in Guest profile the family safety scanner

> auto completes.

>

> I want the guest profile locked down.

>

> The auto complete is disabled as admin however this is not transferring

> to the guest account.</span>

 

1. You should not be running as Administrator for your daily work in Vista.

Create an extra administrative account (call it something like "CompAdmin")

and after you've done this, log into it. From there change your own account

to Standard.

 

2. The Guest account is a special system account, not one meant for when you

are feeling hospitable. It is disabled by default in Windows XP, Vista,

Linux, Unix, and OS X for a reason. It doesn't behave the same way as

regular user accounts do.

 

From TechNet:

 

"The Guest account is intended for users who require temporary access to the

system. However, if this account is enabled, a security risk may exist

because an unauthorized user could gain anonymous access to the system

through this account."

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...echNet.10).aspx

 

So if you enabled Guest, disable it now and create a Standard/Limited

(Vista, XP Pro/XP Home) for your visitors. Call the new user account

something like "Visitor".

 

3. Now try whatever it is you're doing with "Windows Live". If it still

doesn't work and you're referring to Windows Live OneCare, post the

question about that program in its forums.

 

Windows Live OneCare Forums:

http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare...t.aspx?siteid=2

 

4. Be aware that Live OneCare (which I don't recommend anyway) is being

discontinued next year.

 

Malke

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[Guest Sam Hobbs]

"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

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>

> So if you enabled Guest, disable it now and create a Standard/Limited

> (Vista, XP Pro/XP Home) for your visitors.</span>

 

So the Guest account should never be used for anything and Windows should

not have it?