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I found this of interest........ Source Microsoft TechNet..

Subject: Setting Restricted Login Hours on XP Standalone System

I recently had to contact Microsoft Tech Support for assistance on this so I wanted to post the article on the web incase someone else had this same issue.

Situation: You want to restrict the logon days / times of a user account in XP and are a standalone machine.

Reason: You may wish to restrict teens who arrive home before adult supervision from accessing your broadband always on connection, limit employees to only work hours access etc..

Steps:

To Set restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:

net user testuser /times:M-F,5pm-9pm; Sa,6am-9pm;Su,6am-9pm

Where testuser is the local account name.

To Remove Restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:

net user testuser /times:all

Where testuser is the local account name.

I hope someone else finds this useful as I did.

Ken Foster

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cool i am just wondering if this will work in 200 as well since the login system is identical basically.

Windows 2k has more of a graphical way of setting these options. I can't remember exactly where it is (as i dont use 2k) but i think its in the user manager located in Administrative Tools.

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i have been wanting to do this to my brother comp for a while now...

OT: if i create and account and install office and set the user to restricted it cant install anything right? and can only use the installed software? is it possible to completly restrict acess to the hdd?

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The restriction times are for loging on.

That means that you can set times that a user can logon to the computer.

The users cannot change the time, because it has to be done from an administrator account.

*references are to Win2k. I assume that it hasnt changed in XP, but i could be mistaken.

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