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Re: Different users settings

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From: Mark W. Brouwer
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. 

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Mark W. Brouwer,
Netherlands.
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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)
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From: "Mark W. Brouwer" <"mark.stoly[WODKA]"@wxs.nl>
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Date: 1999/03/03
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