Hi, I maintain all the pc's in my home. I have a younger brother that dose not think it is important to have an antivirus on his pc so he deletes it. He thinks his games run faster if he has more room on his hard drive. lol. Is there a way to protect a program from being uninstalled? I use Windows XP home.
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- Thread starter wintacs
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You probably need to set him up a limited user account, (This will also help stop nasties getting on, while he is on line).
Then password protect your own account so he cannot log on as you.
Do this through 'Settings/ control panel / user accounts'/
I know that limited account users cannot install, but I am not sure about uninstall.
If that doesnt work you can hide the AV icon so it doesnt appear in the task bar, right click the task bar and
Click properties/taskbar/customize then you can select 'always hide' for the appropriate icons.
Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.
Then password protect your own account so he cannot log on as you.
Do this through 'Settings/ control panel / user accounts'/
I know that limited account users cannot install, but I am not sure about uninstall.
If that doesnt work you can hide the AV icon so it doesnt appear in the task bar, right click the task bar and
Click properties/taskbar/customize then you can select 'always hide' for the appropriate icons.
Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.
porkchopexpress
IS-IT--Management
As Steve suggests giving him a limited account will prevent him from uninstalling the AV software unfortunatly this may cause problems with some games. This may lead to some messey permissions fiddling to get them to work, this is due to most games producers completly ignoring MS guidelines on writing software for Windows that will run as a restricted user.
porkchopexpress
IS-IT--Management
Having said that MS have a habit of failing to do this themselves 
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biglebowski
Technical User
Give him a gameboy and sell his PC on ebay for beer tokens.
When I was born I was so suprised I didn't talk for 18 months
When I was born I was so suprised I didn't talk for 18 months
wintacs,
You may also want to make sure you have a physical router/firewall setup for all the computers to connect to the internet through. You probably already have one, but I thought I'd mention, just in case. Make sure it has a built-in firewall (if you got it from your cable/dsl provider, then it often does not). Also, with a firewalled router, you can control some of the access from there, to restrict some activities as well as restrict access to some websites. That way, so long as he doesn't have the router password, he has no way of changing that (so long as he doesn't know how to physically reset the router![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")
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Also, it may depend upon what antivirus you are using, but I know that with Norton Antivirus and other Norton products, you can set different passwords so that a "limited user" cannot uninstall or change the program.
You may also want to make sure you have a physical router/firewall setup for all the computers to connect to the internet through. You probably already have one, but I thought I'd mention, just in case. Make sure it has a built-in firewall (if you got it from your cable/dsl provider, then it often does not). Also, with a firewalled router, you can control some of the access from there, to restrict some activities as well as restrict access to some websites. That way, so long as he doesn't have the router password, he has no way of changing that (so long as he doesn't know how to physically reset the router
).Also, it may depend upon what antivirus you are using, but I know that with Norton Antivirus and other Norton products, you can set different passwords so that a "limited user" cannot uninstall or change the program.
biglebowski
Technical User
When I was born I was so suprised I didn't talk for 18 months
JacksonGuy
IS-IT--Management
You could lock the add/remove programs out by group policy. Just remeber that on a local group policy it locks out for all uses so if you wanted to uninstall a program it would require that you allow it in the policy again. Kinda messy but users don't tend to uninstall alot of things anyhow.
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