how do you prevent you kids from deleting the ICON / Remove program in Windows?

[dealcatcher]

how do you prevent you kids from deleting the ICON / Remove program in Windows?

[divx]

1. each person gets their own computer

if u can't afford that, try 2

2. each person gets their own partition

if u find that annoying, try 3

3. buy a parental software that have desktop lock features

[Dailow]

Create a separate user for them, and then use a group policy to restrict their administrative privileges.

[divx]

Create a separate user for them, and then use a group policy to restrict their administrative privileges.
yeah, still can delete stuff though, goto windows explorer, and delete things easily.

[Daijoubu]

huh no, XP gives you alot of control over what a user can do

Make him a limited account, then dig through the group policy editor

[teknoluv]

If your kids are too young for reasoning, don't let them use the computer. If they are old enough but still mess with your stuff, again, don't let them use the computer. Problem solved.

[magical]

You could also password protect your administrator, and when they want to go on the computer, boot them a DVD copy of knoppix.. but ... heh.. I guess they could always browse the hard drive in knoppix and kill the hard drive that way.

[rabbit]

They're doing you a favour by deleting those unnecessary shortcuts. Uninstalling software can be done via Control Panel.

I hate all those extra shortcuts that are created when installing software. There's always a shortcut created for Help, but if you need help, you're usually going to have the program already opened so access help from the Help Menu. Faster to just press F1 when the program you need help with is the active window than having to go through your Start Menu.

[sxz]

Best solution to that problem is: EDUCATION. Teach them what to do and what not to do. If you have the time, go over all the important basic things about Windows and tell them not to click on things that they don't know about.