My son has by-passed the system by creating a new administrator account when he starts up his computer. How do I stop him doing this?
The solution here would be to make your son's account a "limited account" so that he cannot create new users. Then make sure you have a password on the existing adminstrators accounts that he does not know.
Hope this helps!
Adam
Both his "homework" account and his "gaming" account are limited and protected by family safety but he has discovered that you can create a new administrator account when turning on the computer and he then uses that to change the settings.
10 out of 10 for ingenuity and I see it as all part of the game!
Short of taking the computer away I need to know if there is a way to stop him doing it.
I'm not sure that he can create a new administrator account unless you already have an administrator account. Are you certain he doesn't know your password?
Here is my advice as one parent to another, sit down with him and have him show you how he is doing it. Then report back to us and we can probably help.
Matt
I googled it to find out how to do it - it's quite worrying what you can by-pass by going into the OS (I'm learning as I go - not got to geek level yet!)
We both quite like the competitive aspect of trying to out-wit each other and we are both learning as we go so I don't want to do the "don't do that or else" thing yet.
As the system is so easy to by-pass I thought Norton would have some sort of remedy. I may have remedied the situation simply by protecting the "administrator" but I wont know till I get home from work.
Hello ianken. Were you about to resolve this issue? It is possible that there is an administor account by the name 'Administrator' without a password. This account is not viewable at the login screen but is accessible by pressing ALT+CTRL+DELELTE twice. This will bring up the manual login screen. On that screen, attempt to log in a 'Administor.' This account does not usually have a password.
Type 'Administrator'
Regrads,
Henry Su
I'm not sure if he used that way in or cmd.exe
Anyway I've now password protected the "super administrator" and hidden the guest account he had created and the super admin one as well.
I wonder how many more hidden gems like that there are in the system???