James Egan wrote:
> My sister-in-law will be staying with us, and she uses my wife's PC
> running Vista home premium SP1. The last time she stayed with us she
> installed a bunch of software on her old Windows XP PC. We want to
> prevent her from installing software on this new PC. Does Vista have any
> mechanism which would allow us to prevent software from being installed?
> I'm thinking at minimum of creating a non-admin account for her to use.
That should be all you need to do; Vista's enhanced security and UAC
should do the rest.
> And no, asking her to NOT install software will not work with this woman!
Then simply deny her permission to use the computer.
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