Downloading Prevention: Possible ?

Hello,

Brand new W7 user.

Have two accounts set up (no passwords); one for me as the Administrator I guess, and one for my son.

The only thing I would like to prevent is his downloading all the movies and videos which he loves to, which really messed up our old PC.

Lots of questionable sites, and incredible amounts of HD memory gone.

So, is there any way to prevent (any) downloads from his side of the PC, but allow him access to anything else for viewing, etc. ?

Thanks,
B.

Try NetPeeker in compatibility mode for XP. Install another browser on your sons account and prevent him from accessing Internet Explorer. And then use NetPeeker to limit the other browsers bandwidth. I'd keep it about 1GB A week as normal browsing and watching videos can exhaust that bandwidth.

NetPeeker is ShareWare, the link is for a 30-day trial.

Thanks,
ZeshanA
If I helped click the scales above my post and click I Approve.

Oh!Or you could put all the sites he downloads from on the IE7 Block List.

That'll stop him. Oh and both these solutions can easily be bypassed, if your admin account doesn't have a password. Please secure it with one.

Thanks,
ZeshanA

For security reasons, you should set passwords on accounts. If your son is wise at all, he will just log on to yours instead no matter what provisions you put into place on his.

If he knows only a little about computers, he'll still bypass anything you put into place unless it's really good.

If he knows a lot, nothing will stop him from doing anything he wants - technically speaking.

if someone knew what they were doing though couldn't you just boot into safe mode and change things around or even delete accounts/change passwords? I did this once on vista sp1

blankojames said:

if someone knew what they were doing though couldn't you just boot into safe mode and change things around or even delete accounts/change passwords? I did this once on vista sp1

Not if there's a password on the Administrator account. Not normally, anyhow.

Hi all,

Just a quick thanks to everyone for all the suggestions and help.

And for my Drivers query.

Great Forum.
Nice of everyone to take the time; really appreciate it.

Regards,
Bob