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Article #548WRe: Different users settings
From: Paul Colclough
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
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> 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 > setup by way of deleting all sorts, the other is 'normal' but needs to > use thecomputer without this inconvenience. Trouble is, even if you use different partitions with passwords and the through Explorer so it's not too good really.like when Windows is loaded it'll still allow you to access the other drive Only thing I can think of is : Encryption - So that only one user can access a certain drive. Incompatible File systems - So windows can't see the other drive(s). - could install a fresh Windows95 on one partition and an upgraded Windows95 on another. The idea is that the first would not see the fat32 You partition of the upgraded version's drives. > On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:03:40 GMT, David Sugden <dbsugden@clara.co.uk> > wrote: > > >Hi > > > > After the problem with the news server, I obviously noticed that on > next>retrievals using Atlantis things were retrieved again starting from > soon after>the year dot. OK, stop the retrieval and reset all my > newsgroups. Fine on>Clara.support and the Delphi newsgroup I subscribe > to. No effect on the>rec.games.chess.play-by-email. I've wasted 10 mins > trying to get back to the>few ones that come in. Yes I purged it to get > to within a day to new>retrievals. > > Having the same problem; keep having to d/load 1000 odd messages in > some groups each time I collect news. Have taken to sampling the last > 22 headers... :( Maybe you should try NewsHound instead :-) It certainly still has bugs, but I've noticed nothing like this as yet. > Why should STANDARD access users have only 10mb of web space when even > the LIGHT users, who are paying less for their accounts, should have 2.5 > times more web space. My startup CD explicitly states that I would get Light users get 3 hours of internet access and are charged for any use over that. Standard users are not :-) > > > >Forte is nice...much nicer. > > > > Did I mention that it multitasks the bandwidth down to nothing > > aswell...grrrr > > > I like this ... but ... > last time I tried Forte was ... errr ... seventy fortnights ago > anything changed? No :) > BTW does NewsHound always follow-up this way? Only when it's got bugs :)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,fdeda61a768c1006 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: 143fed,fdeda61a768c1006 X-Google-Attributes: gid143fed,public From: "Paul Colclough" <paulc@metalab.unc.edu> Subject: WRe: Different users settings Date: 1999/03/03 Message-ID: <HST93465127@host.domain.com> X-Deja-AN: 450845125 References: <zMYC2.114$lj3.56@nnrp3.clara.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net X-Trace: nnrp3.clara.net 920486998 195.8.74.61 (Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:49:58 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:49:58 BST Newsgroups: alt.windows98,claranet.local.help