[Preston] I hate to ask this but...

John preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Dec 11 22:37:01 2002


Gulp, here goes...

Well, erm... I have bought my daughter a pc for christmas and installed
windows 98 on it (I know, I know but she's only 10 so she has yet to sample
the delights of linux). The thing is, I want to set up a password on it for
her so that her beloved brothers and sisters can't use it when she is not
around (she has specified this particularly! lol). SO, I know that the
standard password for a win 95/98 machine allows you to cancel and bring the
machine up with a basic set of desktop icons..Thing is, does anybody know of
a way whereby the machine will not fully boot without the said password
(like windows 2000 for example). Any help greatly appreciated by a sweet
little girl who will one day become my Linux protegy (so the story goes
anyway).

Cheers

John

PS. Apologies for any offence caused by asking this question but it's so
close to Christmas that I don't know who else to turn to (sob sob)