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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 1197213" data-attributes="member: 696">Well, looks like my computer doesn't have another slot for another hard drive controller. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Oh well, I'll just have to get an external hard drive. Got another question for y'all: I live with my folks.  (This is both for economics--still in the underemployment setup--and because my folks are old, so they need someone around to help out.)  My dad is working off an old Pentium I, using a dialup to log on to the internet only to get his mail.  (He has the $10 for 5 hours deal at AOL, so that's all he does.) I want to set up a user account on my computer so he can log in, use my much faster computer to play his games, and possibly log on to the internet through my account. The trouble is, SBC Yahoo DSL won't log on a non-administrative account, which I'm guessing is the primary account on a computer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> So, is there any way to convince Windows XP Home to give limited administrative priviledges (just to log on to my DSL line) to my dad's account? Or do I have to give him full access to my files, with all the hassle that involves?</blockquote>

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