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OK, now we have this Windows forum, I might as well post a question that's been bugging me for a while.
The kids have inherited my old laptop, which is connected to our wireless DSL router via a wireless USB network adapter. Great. No cables. We can drag the thing all over the family room.
Thing is, that only accounts with administrator rights can access the internet on that machine.
Now, I don't want to give my 6-year old admin rights on that 'puter, even though there's just a few children's games installed on it. But, you know, I'm talking about the kid who, every time he gets his hands on the iPod Nano, manages to set the display language to Kanji and it takes me three hours of trial and error to get a halfway readable language back on the screen. That kid will not get admin rights on any computer in our house, unless he outsmarts me and hacks it.
But when he logs in with his own account, the internet connection does not fire up. So he screams and wails, and I have to come running and log on with my admin account and then switch users, so he can go to the Bob the Builder site, or wherever, and once we've been through that song and dance, most of his allotted 30 minutes computer time is used up and he is mighy p*ssed off.
I know, I have to work on my parenting skills, but I'm already asking those questions in another forum
So, Windows XP-perts, what gives? How come, a limited user account cannot make the internet connection unless the admin shadows it first? And how can I hack it?
Holding my breath ....
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