Kid Proofing my desktop

[jketron]

How can I protect my desktop from the kids moving, dragging, deleteing, changing the screen to something funky.... You get the idea

I want my kids 3 and 4 yrs old to play but I also want to protect the desktop from being all messed up. Is there a piece of software that will lock the desktop from changes?

 

[srl7741]

Parental Controls

Create a new profile for them and use Parental Controls.

System Preferences-Parental Controls

 

[r.j.s]

Second the Parental Controls.

BTW, does anyone remember At Ease? My school had it on their systems, and it caused me to hate Macs with a passion for a number of years - because I didn't know any better. Slightly off topic, I know, but this thread made me think of it.

 

[booste]

My school had at ease too! I hated it and I guess it made me hate macs as well until about a year ago... Because even after we got OS X computers they were so slow!

 

[r.j.s]

My school had at ease too! I hated it and I guess it made me hate macs as well until about a year ago... Because even after we got OS X computers they were so slow!

I graduated a few months after OS X was released, so I never had the chance to see it.

/thread hijack

 

[booste]

I was only in grade 3 or 4 when we got OS X haha