On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:40:13AM +0100, Christopher Chatfield wrote: > I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years. > I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra > special game about to be released, that will only play on windows. > > I want to run windows in paranoid mode, but there are other members > of my household and I cannot afford a dedicated paranoid machine. > > How do I permanantly disable networking in windows XP so that > my savy teenage children will not be able to enable it. > > Can I delete an appropriate library, without crippling the system? > > If so what and where. > > Look forward to an answer for this off topic question, > but I am sure one of you will warm to the idea of crippling > a windows system.
There are two reasons this won't work. One is that many games require an administrator account to access the 3D hardware. This is a Windows design flaw and will stop a sensible method of giving the kids user accounts that can't change the system. The other is if they are that savvy, they're going to fix anything you fudge. Even if that means downloading a dodgy copy of XP to reinstall the bits you delete. You could just not connect the machine physically to the network, that is don't add a wireless card and position the machine away from any network cables. Also tell the kids that this is a games only machine and don't go online with it. Windows admin and security works on a honour system anyway, you can block attacks from the outside world. But you just have to trust users not to mess with it too much. :) -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Kick the geo-thermal condenser
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