PLEASE HELP!!! (Sorry It's So Wordy)

[george]

I have a question about user profiles. I have a limmited account on my
computer that I have just for my friends and family when they want to ues my
computer. When ever they are on it though, they always change the background
or screensaver, download files and programs, and one even decided to put a
password on the account. So heres what I want to do, but can't figure out
how. I want to set up the profile to go back to the way it was at the
log-in, no matter what changes are made while being loged-in. (In other words
I want the screensaver and desptop to go back to what it was, and any
programs downloaded will be entirly erased.) PLEASE, somebody help me with
this problem, I will really appriciate it!

Thanks
-George

[Shenan Stanley]

george wrote:
> I have a question about user profiles. I have a limmited account
> on my computer that I have just for my friends and family when they
> want to ues my computer. When ever they are on it though, they
> always change the background or screensaver, download files and
> programs, and one even decided to put a password on the account.
> So heres what I want to do, but can't figure out how. I want to
> set up the profile to go back to the way it was at the log-in, no
> matter what changes are made while being loged-in. (In other words
> I want the screensaver and desptop to go back to what it was, and
> any programs downloaded will be entirly erased.) PLEASE, somebody
> help me with this problem, I will really appriciate it!

Being a home machine - not in a domain - I don't think you can make a
mandatory profile.
You could create a Default User profile and then erase the directory for the
user in question manually after it's uage..

However - there is no automagically way to do what you want in the given
environment innately.. It would require third party applications that would
do MUCH MORE than what you are wanting (like imaging the whole machine,
etc). As for them installing things - uhm - that account obviously is not
"limited" enough. A regular user should not be able to install things.

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