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Article #546Re: Different users settings
From: Mark W. Brouwer
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
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Jon, Please read the following article from Conitech. Creating Secure User Profiles under Windows 95 http://www.conitech.com/windows/secure.html It's tested and works also under WIN98. -- Mark W. Brouwer, Netherlands. EMAIL : mark.stoly[WODKA]@wxs.nl ***Remove [WODKA] to reply*** ---------------------------- home page : Virus or Hoax ? http://home.wxs.nl/~brouw039 ---------------------------- Jon wrote: > > I need to set up Win 98 to be used by two people... > ...one is mentally disabled and is very prone to 'wrecking' the current set > up by way of deleting all sorts, the other is 'normal' but needs to use the > computer without this inconvenience. > > Is there any way that the HDD could be partitioned and then treated as two > completely separate drives so that the disabled person could use say drive > D: with no detrimental effect to C: which she would be denied access to? > She could have all the programs she needs installed to D: whilst the other > user would use C: > Could I use tweakUI to make C: invisible to the person using D: ? > > If this is not possible, how about having two partitions on the same drive, > both having Win98 on, with a boot manager allowing the facility to boot to > whatever drive, obviously the drive with the boot manager on would need to > be protected form the other user somehow (password protected screensaver in > startup folder?) > > Any thoughts please...? > > -- > Regards, > Jon (Remove SPAM-LESS for direct Email replies) > Watercolour? http://welcome.to/watercolour > Conferences? http://welcome.to/MissingLink
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