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From: Graham J on 5 May 2010 08:03

"T i m" <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote in message
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> Aren't they creative. ;-)
>
> Daughters, b/f's Grandad is both old and new to computing. Laddo keeps
> getting support calls for missing desktop icons (Vista laptop) and
> when he looks into it the icons are often in the recycle bin.
>
> 'Grandad' denies putting them there of course but they have just found
> out what he's been doing ... he right clicks on the icon and up pops a
> context sensitive menu. That's not what he meant to do (the right
> click) but now want's to get rid of the menu and the only thing he can
> see that might do that is 'Delete'. ;-)

Create an "Adminitrator" account with a password that you don't tell
Grandad.

Convert his account to "User". Ensure the wanted desktop icons are in the
"all users" account and write protected - then Grandad can't delete them
from his account.

This is good practise for everybody - not just n00bs.

-- Graham


From: T i m on 5 May 2010 13:46
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:03:32 +0100, "Graham J" <graham(a)invalid> wrote:

>
>Create an "Adminitrator" account with a password that you don't tell
>Grandad.

Ok.
>
>Convert his account to "User". Ensure the wanted desktop icons are in the
>"all users" account and write protected - then Grandad can't delete them
>from his account.

Ok.
>
>This is good practise for everybody - not just n00bs.

And what I was saying to daughter is often the norm for business
machines etc.

Personally I disable all such 'control' as soon as I can as it get's
in my way and doing so has never caused an issue.

I'll forward your suggestion though so thanks.

T i m
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