I have my laptop used by my room mates, I have a user account and everyone knows the password for the same. I don't want to put parental controls on my user account and want to create a room mate specific user account and set parental controls for specific things as below:
- No Access to specific drive/ folder in the drive.
- A installed software in my login available/non-available to other login
- Limited usage of internet sites(I guess thats to be done in browser)
Just needed that much, 😛 hope no one gets mad on me. I tried to solve issue by my own but was unsuccessful in 2nd part. 🙁
Best Answer
Before we start you need to create a standard user account for your room mates.
Open Control Panel > Go to User Accounts and Family Safety > click on the Add or remove user accounts > click Create a new account > Enter the User name and make sure you select the account type as 'Standard'.
You can do this by taking ownership and full control of the files and folders in Windows. To take a ownership of the folder/file, Right Click the File/Folder > Go to security Tab > Add your user account and remove the other login id that you don't wish grant acccess.
More detailed instructions and steps to take ownership and full control of file/folders are provided here.
The built in Windows 7 parental controls feature can control which installed program can be run by the standard users.
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As far as I know Windows 7 doesn't have built in web filtering but you can install the Windows Live Family Safety which is a free application from Microsoft.
Web filtering using Windows Live Family Safety:
Here's how to allow or block a website
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