A tip: Use caution when asking your mother what she wants for Christmas.
Another tip: Screaming "Oh, me 'eart!!!" and falling to the floor holding your chest isn't appreciated by your mother at that point...
I was looking to upgrade to XP Home edition soon, but now I have reason to inquire about it's multi-user functions.
First, I have some things on my computer I wouldn't want my mother to see. Without going into detail, is there anyway in XP Home, to lock a drive or folder to keep someone without the proper password from getting in? I know I could do this in ten seconds with XP Professional and NTFS, but that would be more fun than I'm willing to have.
Second, I assume different usernames would automatically have their DUN connectoids seperate, but would Outlook Express profiles be seperated like that? I don't exactly want my mother reading my e-mails either, based on all the spam I get, despite my ISP's WONDERFUL spam filters... 
That's basically it... I want to seperate my PC into two spaces - "Brian's Space" and "The Space I let Mom Use" using XP Home.
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Bajah wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Go to Fry's, spend 250 bucks, get a computer for her
A good plan, except for two minor details:
1. I don't have 250 dollars.
2. Fry's is in California. I am in Buffalo, NY. 
There are no Fry's around here.
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Mightion Defensor had this to say about dark elf butts:
A good plan, except for two minor details:
1. I don't have 250 dollars.
2. Fry's is in California. I am in Buffalo, NY.There are no Fry's around here.
1. Why not? Stop buying crappy buffalo chicken sanwiches.
2. Houston, Texas is much closer than California! I'll give ya a place to stay while you're here. No hotel = cheap.
scary coming from an elephant huh!
stomp stomp STOMP
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Illanae had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Brian, I really want you.
scary coming from an elephant huh!
stomp stomp STOMP
Scarier coming from his mom.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Illanae had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Brian, I really want you.
scary coming from an elephant huh!
stomp stomp STOMP
/em looks up at 'Nae and gulps
I fear I lack the training and experience to provide more than token amusement for you, mistress.
and the tusks freak me out... I think I'd prefer the "female high elf" as opposed to the "stampeding pachyderm"
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Jraik Doomshadow was all like:
What part of Buffalo, Mightion?
I live in South Buffalo. Right off South Park Avenue near Bailey.
Pirate the sucker
Get XP Pro for yourself ^_^
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Nammy the Namtar had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Do what every computer savvy user does when they need a new OSPirate the sucker
Get XP Pro for yourself ^_^
Sorry, I stopped pirating software back in my C64 days. I buy all my software.
(puts the brakes on before he says something that would start another thievery flamewar)
XP
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Bajah had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
1. Why not? Stop buying crappy buffalo chicken sanwiches.
2. Houston, Texas is much closer than California! I'll give ya a place to stay while you're here. No hotel = cheap.
While I'm glad you want me to come to your house, if I had the money for the plane tickets, I'd have money for either the computer of the extra for XP Pro! 
And it still wouldn't get me near Fry's.
The humor was lost when your mom was revealed as the subject.
I'm going to go wash my brain out with soap, now.
thx.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
This, however, has not happened yet.
Be nice to my mom. She'd kick all your asses, Polish-Catholic-Grandmother style, yo.
Cookie Monster: C is for cookie!!! Rawr*gobblegobblegobble*
& i think there's programs that can make you lck things down
to keep privite =)
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Mightion Defensor wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
While I'm glad you want me to come to your house, if I had the money for the plane tickets, I'd have money for either the computer of the extra for XP Pro!
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Mightion Defensor wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
And it still wouldn't get me near Fry's.
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Ukko The Papa Bear had this to say about John Romero:
guy's this not helping , stay on the subject =)
personaly, i just split the hard drive in two& i think there's programs that can make you lck things down
to keep privite =)
I'd like to minimize the amount of steps she has to take.... remember; she'd be using it while I'm not home; so I'd like to minimize the risk she hits the wrong button. Granted, I'd trust her far more than I'd trust my father... but still...
Well, in any case. Back before I bought my own PC, my mother and I used 2 separate partitions of an Apple G3. Each had it's own OS, so I could mess and fook mine up as much as I wanted to. But security-wise, the demarcation was psychologic, really... My mother didn't mess with my things, and I had no interest in my mother's.
That could be what you might be looking for, though it's far from easy. I'm assuming you're using Win98 here, so if it's the case there's always the very simple solution: put all your private stuff in a folder and flag it "Invisible". I know it's real easy to get by by changing the Invisible files option, but it takes someone in the very least computer-savvy (which, in all due respect, your mother doesn't seem to be) to find it out. If not, there probably is some third-party junk out there, though I don't trust unstable junk from any others than Microsoft...
As for the teaching part... It's real annoying, I have to put up with showing my mother everything I do when something goes wrong. Strangely enough, she doesn't seem to understand, "But mom! However much and in any way I show you how, you will never be able to configure and run a Linux proxy!".
Anyway, I can't really help you on this one, cause we're pretty much in the same boat.
Don't get me wrong...she didn't get a state of the art computer either. She actually got my old system when I upgraded. She is a computer using fool now. She asked me a few questions here and there and being a older system it had its quirks and made odd noises from time to time. I would just head over and change out the offending part and away she would go again. Also the Internet is a wonderful thing to let them loose on....MUHAHAHAHAHA! Of course make sure she has Anti-Cootie software running. No need having to expalin to her that the sexy dwarf screensaver is a virus, just let the software zap it.
Also hit up your friends and co workers if they have been upgrading and haven't relocated the old parts yet. You never know.
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Tier stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Jeez, and here I thought Mightion's cybersex0r logs had leaked on the boards again...Well, in any case. Back before I bought my own PC, my mother and I used 2 separate partitions of an Apple G3. Each had it's own OS, so I could mess and fook mine up as much as I wanted to. But security-wise, the demarcation was psychologic, really... My mother didn't mess with my things, and I had no interest in my mother's.
That could be what you might be looking for, though it's far from easy. I'm assuming you're using Win98 here, so if it's the case there's always the very simple solution: put all your private stuff in a folder and flag it "Invisible". I know it's real easy to get by by changing the Invisible files option, but it takes someone in the very least computer-savvy (which, in all due respect, your mother doesn't seem to be) to find it out. If not, there probably is some third-party junk out there, though I don't trust unstable junk from any others than Microsoft...
As for the teaching part... It's real annoying, I have to put up with showing my mother everything I do when something goes wrong. Strangely enough, she doesn't seem to understand, "But mom! However much and in any way I show you how, you will never be able to configure and run a Linux proxy!".
Anyway, I can't really help you on this one, cause we're pretty much in the same boat.
Hard for something that doesn't exist to leak out anywhere, much less these boards.
My question was, since I'm upgrading to XP Home anyway soon, how can I set it up for two user profiles with seperate passwords that can't be bypassed by hitting cancel...
I want privacy, in other words.
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Mightion Defensor had this to say about dark elf butts:
My question was, since I'm upgrading to XP Home anyway soon, how can I set it up for two user profiles with seperate passwords that can't be bypassed by hitting cancel...
I have a FreeWare program like that for Win95/98. If you don't use one of the pre-programmed IDs with the correct password (or hit cancel), the PC shuts down.
I'll have to see if there is an upgrade for 2000/XP
