BF2S Forums How can I disable Limewire for my sister?

Flecco wrote:

Or stop the pirating.

Fenix14 wrote:

Flecco wrote:

Or stop the pirating.

says the pirate....


dunno how to do it in vista but, set her account to minimal access & make limewire an admin/full access only program, somewhere in control pannel

ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" = dword:00000002

Last edited by Cheez (2007-05-12 04:19:44)

Cheez wrote:

The registry tweak to get it to ask for Admin Credentials (password) instead of "Do you want to Deny or Allow?" as located at

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Code:

ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" = dword:00000002

Change that to 1, 2 or 3. I forget.
The changes are immediate and you won't break anything (besides not asking if you set to 0), just try and load msconfig or something.

If you can get Limewire for access just to admins, then set her to a limited and make it nag for a password.

ghettoperson wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

Axon wrote:

Well, I have a problem...

I'm running Vista atm, me and my sister have different user accounts on Vista, but she keeps downloading crap from Limewire, found 91 spyware in her fucking map. But I need Limewire for MY music :p.

Is there a way to disable Limewire for my sister's account, but that it stills work in mine

"C:\Documents and Settings\Gebruikers\Emma"

91 spyware found

Delete now?

Getting sick and tired of it...

First of all, dump limewire. NOW.
It is now, officially, an illegal means of downloading. The EU will prosecute you, and your ISP will be monitoring you right now. Trust me, I know, a friend of mine got fined £6000 for downloading off limewire ( that is a total of $12000 ). If they catch you, you get screwed, simple as that.
Switch to Bittorrent or Rapidshare or Warez. Never limewire.

Now, if you are not going to do that then... Are you the administrator of the computer? If you are, make yourself password protected and remove administration from your sister then just lock the program. So every time she wants to launch it, she has to input your admin password. Vista allows you to do all of that and more, you can even monitor her every move.

There is another way, find a cracked version of INVISIBLE SECRETS, then just open it up, configure with a master password, go to LOCK APPLICATIONS/PROGRAMS and choose Limewire.exe, so every time someone tries to open up that application they get a message saying "Input your password please". If they cannot, then the program does not start.

I was under the impression in reality they only bother prosecuting the major offenders? Like I'm sure you're friend downloaded a lot more than 6000 quids worth of software.

Mekstizzle wrote:

Just get rid of it and use torrents. She probably won't know how to use torrents, you probably do. Job done.

Zimmer wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

First of all, dump limewire. NOW.
It is now, officially, an illegal means of downloading. The EU will prosecute you, and your ISP will be monitoring you right now. Trust me, I know, a friend of mine got fined £6000 for downloading off limewire ( that is a total of $12000 ). If they catch you, you get screwed, simple as that.
Switch to Bittorrent or Rapidshare or Warez. Never limewire.

Now, if you are not going to do that then... Are you the administrator of the computer? If you are, make yourself password protected and remove administration from your sister then just lock the program. So every time she wants to launch it, she has to input your admin password. Vista allows you to do all of that and more, you can even monitor her every move.

There is another way, find a cracked version of INVISIBLE SECRETS, then just open it up, configure with a master password, go to LOCK APPLICATIONS/PROGRAMS and choose Limewire.exe, so every time someone tries to open up that application they get a message saying "Input your password please". If they cannot, then the program does not start.

I was under the impression in reality they only bother prosecuting the major offenders? Like I'm sure you're friend downloaded a lot more than 6000 quids worth of software.

Yes....
Ghetto, most people don't realise how much shit they have downloaded off the internet.
They can fine you from £500 to £20000, and it isn't all about how much the software costs, it is also the copyright infringement and how the companies of the software/music deal with it.
He downloaded....I think it was 800 songs. Now take that into account...that is around 35 albums. Not a lot when you think about it that way, eh?
Limewire and Emule and Edonkey are the most un-secure, illegal, harmful p2p software out there.
You either swtich to newsgroups or RS or bittorrent ( which btw, will not last much longer as nearly every single major software producing company is trying to sue them ).