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[Kizzy]

Is there anyway to turn this off? I have a computer that is in a den area, only the kids use it and I have AOL for broadband, because I can limit the kid’s use. This doesn't help worth squat if the kids can click on IE and get on the web so any suggestions on how to fix that?

 

[Penn]

Kizzy, I don't know if there's a way to password protect entering IE, like there is for Outlook Express.

Maybe 2nd A or Jazz can come up with something I'm unaware of.

 

[2ndAmendment]

What OS are you using? Win 2000? XP? 98?

 

[TWL]

Is there anyway to turn this off? I have a computer that is in a den area, only the kids use it and I have AOL for broadband, because I can limit the kid’s use. This doesn't help worth squat if the kids can click on IE and get on the web so any suggestions on how to fix that?

In Windows 2000 and possibly XP:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
Click 'Add/Remove Windows Components'
Uncheck 'Internet Explorer'
Click 'Next'

This will only remove the IE icon from the desktop and quick launch.
IE can still be accessable by opening .html, .htm and any other web documents.
To get around this:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options
Click 'File Types' tab

Locate the extentions that open with IE then click 'Change' button. Have these extentions open your AOL browser.

Even after all these changes, IE can still be accessable by:

Start > Run 
Then enter 'iexplore'
Click 'OK'

There is no way around this, short of deleting iexplore.exe. **DO NOT delete iexplore.exe. You will screw your Windows install up.**

 

[Kizzy]

Thanks. I am using XP and I have a nephew that likes to come over and download stuff. Bad stuff. Hopefully this will stop all of that.

 

[2ndAmendment]

The reason I asked is there is a way if you have Wn 2000 of setting up kiosk mode on a particular login. Then only what is in the startup for that login is usable. No other programs can be accessed. You can even lock it down so that AOL starts as soon as they log in and when they exit the system logs out. It is not widly published, but it can be done. May be able to lock out on XP too, but I haven't tried.

 

[alex]

We had a problem with underage abuse of our high speed connection as well. After putting parental controls on their machine I then passworded my machine. I even have a separate login for my comptuer. They can only access what I let them and that means no internet. So if they need to use a special program that only I have they can login in under guest.

Can't that we be done on XP or 2000 as well?

 

[Kizzy]

We had a problem with underage abuse of our high speed connection as well. After putting parental controls on their machine I then passworded my machine. I even have a separate login for my comptuer. They can only access what I let them and that means no internet. So if they need to use a special program that only I have they can login in under guest.

Can't that we be done on XP or 2000 as well?

Yes and it is the option I choose. I have a nephew coming over here and down loading bad stuff. I mean REALLY BAD stuff. I am shocked and it takes a whole lot to shock me. I had pop up ads after pop up ads that I just could not stop even after running a spyware program. My son needs this computer for school and I am sick and tired of fixing it, because he cannot be trusted. I spoke to him one other time before and I can see exactly what time and date he went in and did these things. Now, I am the administrator and he has a user logon, same with the kids, but none of them can download anything but me.

I started on this project when I posted this thread. Now granted, I have had laundry, cleaning, homework out the dayum butt to do today, but I just now finished. I have better things to do with my time than clean up a computer after a teenager that cannot be trusted.

 

[2ndAmendment]

I have a nephew coming over here and down loading bad stuff. I mean REALLY BAD stuff.

He would no longer have use of any computer in my home. Period. End of story.

Just wait. If you had porn pop ups, you will have porn spam in abundance. Similar thing happened in our house. A friend of the boys was the culprit. I cleaned up the mess and told him never to browse to those kind of sites from our systems and told the boys that they were responsible for policing their friends and if it happened again, they would be cut off from the Internet until they moved out and got a place of their own. No further problem. It did take about a year to get rid of most of the spam. Since the boys were underage at the time, I had to threaten prosecutions by calling the parent companies. Then I finally changed the email accounts and deleted the ones that were getting spammed since I could not get rid of the off shore spammers.

 

[Spoiled]

He would no longer have use of any computer in my home. Period. End of story.

Just wait. If you had porn pop ups, you will have porn spam in abundance. Similar thing happened in our house. A friend of the boys was the culprit. I cleaned up the mess and told him never to browse to those kind of sites from our systems and told the boys that they were responsible for policing their friends and if it happened again, they would be cut off from the Internet until they moved out and got a place of their own. No further problem. It did take about a year to get rid of most of the spam. Since the boys were underage at the time, I had to threaten prosecutions by calling the parent companies. Then I finally changed the email accounts and deleted the ones that were getting spammed since I could not get rid of the off shore spammers.

ad aware and spyboy search and destroy are your friends... the email sucks though ;\

 

[2ndAmendment]

ad aware and spyboy search and destroy are your friends... the email sucks though ;\

Those would be Ad-aware and Spybot Search and Destroy just in case someone does a search. Spoiled

 

[alex]

2nd I know where you are coming from. Hubby convinced me that we could trust our kids on an open internet and then I find some very interesting downloads when cleaning up my laptop. Have to give the kids credit they owned up to visiting the sites when confronted. Now they have parental controls that my ISP provides. This means I even approve who they can send and received emails from. Boy! do they hate that one. I told them since they abused our trust, this is they way life will be until they move out of the house and pay for their own internet connections.