Re: [WinMac] Re: At ease (WinMac Digest #94 - 10/01/98)
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:30:27 -0700 (PDT)
[Cool story about David and his 5-year old (then 3) using At Ease to
get to her favorite CD program.]
> I use both Mac and PC at work, and should warn anybody who thinks
> logging on with username and password in Win95 offers similar
> protection -- you're wrong. Just hit the escape key, and you'll
> continue right to the desktop (go figure...). I'm not using Win98, so
> I don't know if that's been corrected.
>
> Also, At Ease is used by most schools that have Macs that I've seen.
> Great little (though slightly imperfect) security app.
The much-ridiculed "Microsoft Bob" software let you do similar
things under Windows 95. If only it wasn't so "cute." Sadly, it got
killed off quick.
But i helped somebody set this up on their Gateway 2000 system at
home, and it was great. Kids had their "clubhouse" with all the
appropriate apps, and it kept them out of the folks' "office" with
things like Quicken and so on.
Maybe Windows 98 incorporated some of the "Bob" stuff? i dunno.
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