Hi everyone, I've not used Win 7 yet but I wanted to ask this question before I migrate to it. I have a major frustration on XP Pro that I am hoping will be fixed on Win 7. I have a single home machine running XP Pro (will eventually be Win 7 Pro). I am the administrator on the machine but I have three kids, each of whom has their own user account. There is no domain controller involved. I would like each child to have different permissions on the computer. XP was terrible at handling this. In XP I had to go into Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) and change policy settings but those changes apply to ME, the administrator, not to the other users. I then tried copying to generated policy files (*.pol) to various user directories but it never worked. It was just an endless frustration.Just to be clear, I am *NOT* talking about file/folder permissions. I'm talking about things like using Control Panel or Internet Explorer settingsor installing software. One does not generally use Group Policy Editor to adjust file permissions (I'm not sure if you even can).What I would like to do is use Group Policy Editor (as an admin) and then TARGET users or groups of users. For example, I would like to give my 13 year old child permissions X, Y and Z but the 7 year old only gets Z permission. Does Win 7 have facilities for setting individual permissions on individual user accounts? Please say it does. Thanks very much

From what Ican tell, what you needcan be done using NTFS file permissions (provided you are talking folder permissions). RMB on the drive/partition you want to edit > Properties > Security [tab]. As far as GP, I'm not too well versed in using that.You can set acls for individual users (Child A, Child B,etc.) or entire groups (Children, Users, Administrators) of users. Groups can be created and editedwith MMC > Local Users and Groups\Groups. A deny will override allow in the casemultiple usergroupsor accounts have a conflict.

On a computer that is not in a domain, we need to change permissions, or set policies for users to limit user's privilege. There are lot of situations, so we could not provide a detail function if you do not tell us what exactly you would like to do. As Vistaline's suggestion, sometimes you could set permissions for users to determine whether it could access a component or not. However, we need more action in some other situations. Parental Control is an optional function. Another helpful tool is Windows Steady State. Currently the 2.5 version is not compatible with Windows 7 RC. You may wait for new versions to be released. The following website could help you to know this program. Windows SteadyStateArthur Xie - MSFT

Thanks for the reply, Arthur. It looks like SteadyState is close to what I'm looking for.My original post was due to my frustation with the Group Policy Tool. Any changes made bythe GPT seem to apply to me, the user of the tool.What I was wanted to do was to use the GPT to make policy changes that would affect OTHER USERS,not to my own account. There did not seem to be any reasonable way of doing this.