Time based User Account Logins

[Rincewind]

Well I've set up a few user accounts in Win XP Pro, one with Administrator privies, and the rest are limited. What I'd like to know how to do is, to limit the limited accounts even more. As in set up times when they are allowed to be on... sort of parrental control... examples Child Account User only allowed to login between 4-6pm Monday to Friday 8am-8pm Weekends, and absolutely no logins after 9 or 10pm.

Is there a way to set this up with Win XP Pro by itself, or is there a seperate program available for this? Could someone recomend a program or help me with what I'm looking for?

[Jager-bomb]

I don't know of a way to disable logons during a specified time-period, but using the Group Policy Editor (Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc) you can make it so they won't want to log on anyway :-P

[Rincewind]

I'm okay with what they do while on the computer, especially since "Limited account" is so limited, just need to have time management for specified accounts. Like one of my sons, his bed time is at 10 pm, so if I set it to 10:15 or so, the computer will shutdown. And my daughter, her bed time is 9pm, and under her account setting, i'd set it to 9:15 or so. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong category... there has to be a way.

[snowmonkey]

you could use a third party software called Access Administator, it will all that:

http://www.softheap.com/acadmpro.html


cheers