Microsoft KB Archive/179825

= Contents of the Plus! For Kids Readme.doc File =

Article ID: 179825

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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SUMMARY
This article contains the text of the Readme.doc file included with Microsoft Plus! For Kids, version 1.0.



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Microsoft Plus! for Kids Readme January 1997 (r) 1997 Microsoft Corporation This document provides late-breaking and other information that supplements the Microsoft Plus! for Kids online Help and jewel case booklet. TABLE OF CONTENTS Setup Using Microsoft Plus! for Kids with Microsoft Plus! for Windows Installing on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Removing Protect It! Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 (Plus! for Kids Version) ClipArt Sharing ClipArt Desktop Themes Screen Saver Hotspots Require System Agent Paint It! Palettes or Colors Paint It! Uses for Your Picture Play It! Gravis Ultrasound Classic Protect It! Resetting Your Password Making Your Security Tighter ".Default" User Default User Windows Logon Interactions with AutoPlay Using Internet Ratings Settings Modem and Internet Browser Interactions Dial-Up Networking Windows Startup Deleting Users Microsoft Network Trial Version SurfWatch 15-Day Trial Version Setup Using Microsoft Plus! for Kids with Microsoft Plus! for Windows If you install both products, and then remove Plus! for Windows (or the Desktop Themes component of Plus! for Windows), the Control Panel icon for Desktop Themes will be removed and Desktop Themes might not work in Plus! for Kids. To restore the Control Panel icon and run Plus for Kids Desktop Themes, run Plus! for Kids Setup again, and click Reinstall when that option appears. Installing on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 To install Plus! for Kids on NT 4.0, you need administrator privileges. If you do not have administrator privileges, contact your system administrator or the person who normally runs the computer. Protect It! and Desktop Themes cannot be installed on Windows NT 4.0. This is due to design differences between Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The Microsoft Network, Microsoft Demonstration program, and SurfWatch Trial Version are not designed to run on Windows NT. Removing Protect It! Because Protect It! is a system component, it cannot be removed by Setup. Although it is not recommended that you remove Protect It! (because you will lose your computer security), complete the following steps if you want to remove the program. To remove Protect It! Start Protect It! Click the Set/Change button, and then making sure that none of the check boxes are selected in the Select Family Member Options dialog box. Click the Summary button, and then make sure that there are no green check marks next to options, only dotted check marks. Clear the Protect It! check box on the main screen of Protect It!. Click the Close button. Follow the instructions in the Tips section of the jewel case booklet. Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 (Plus! for Kids Version) Place the Microsoft Plus! for Kids disc into a caddy (if required) and then insert it into your CD-ROM drive. The Plus! for Kids AutoPlay program should start. Click the Internet Explorer 3.02 button. Follow the instructions. The above steps run \ie\msie302r.exe from the compact disc. Note: You may also want to install a full version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02. You can run the following programs directly from the compact disc: \ie\msie302n.exe - This is the full version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for NT. \ie\msie3029.exe - This is the full version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 95. ClipArt Sharing ClipArt Creative Writer 2.0 and Plus! for Kids use the same ClipArt system. If you install both products, you will find that the ClipArt for the two products can be used interchangeably. Desktop Themes Screen Saver Hotspots Require System Agent System Agent must be installed in order for you to use the mouse hotspots in some Plus! for Kids screen savers. You can set hotspots on the General tab of the Screen Saver settings button on the Display Control Panel Applet. You can find the Display Control Panel in the Control Panel. System Agent is a component of Microsoft Plus! for Windows, a separate product. Paint It! Palettes or Colors Paint It! Uses for Your Picture If you start Paint It! and create a picture in 256-color mode, Paint It! will choose the colors that it thinks best match your picture. This may mean that certain colors may be unavailable. If you want to use different colors, you can either: Start Paint It! by opening the picture with the colors you want. For example, double-click the file mypicture.bmp. -or- Click Options on the menu, and then click Edit Colors. If you start Paint It! in 16-bit or 24-bit color mode, Paint It! will use any color that you want. Play It! Gravis Ultrasound Classic You may experience certain problems using the Gravis Ultrasound Classic sound card with older audio drivers. Contact your supplier or Gravis for an updated driver if you experience problems. Protect It! Resetting Your Password If you forget your password, follow the instructions on the last page in the Tips section of the jewel case booklet. Making Your Security Tighter In addition to the steps listed in Protect It! Help and the jewel case booklet, the following steps will help you make your computer more secure. Be sure to assign a password to everyone on the system. When Protect It! creates a user, that user is given a blank password. You can easily set their password for them. You can do this by logging on as  the user you want to set the password for. Then enter the password that you wish to give them. You will be asked to confirm the password by entering it again. Remove Setup programs from the Start menu and the list of allowed programs. Setup programs allow anyone to change the configuration of  software. This is not always desirable. Remove explorer.exe from the list of programs that can be run. This will prevent family members from browsing the disk drives and potentially starting applications. Remove the ability to AutoPlay compact discs. See the section later in  this document titled Interactions with AutoPlay for more information. Set restrictions on the .Default user. See the .Default Users section later in this document for more information. Remove items that you do not want users to set from the taskbar. For example, you might want to remove the volume control for an audio card. See the Windows Help topic "Customizing the Start Menu or  Taskbar" for further instructions. Make certain that the family member does not have any desktop icons that give them access to undesired files or programs. If they do, they might be able to start these programs or remove them. To check this, you should log on as the family member and look at the items on their Windows desktop. Make certain that the family member does not have any documents in the Start Menu - Documents folder that give them access to undesired files. To check this, you should log on as the family member and look at the items on their Start menu - Documents. Protect It! does not restrict access to documents, only to programs. Restrict physical access to any MS-DOS boot diskettes. If a family member has Explorer running and logs on again, Explorer will start again. If you restrict access to Explorer for that family member, they must exit Explorer before logging on again. ".Default" User You will normally see a user called ".Default" listed in Protect It!. That's the exact name that will show up in the listing of family members inside Protect It!. This user is automatically created by the system. The system uses this user for two things: The first is when a family member clicks Cancel or presses the ESC key when logging on. The restrictions assigned to the .Default user determine what the family member can do. If you want to make your system more restrictive, assign the appropriate restrictions to the .Default user. A .Default user with no restrictions will allow any user without a proper logon to do anything they wish on your computer system. The second use for .Default user is as a template for creating new users. When you add a new user to Protect It!, all of the Start menu entries and Document entries from the .Default user are initially assigned to your new user. You can then customize the user's entries. Default User In certain cases you might find a family member named "Default". That's the exact name that will show up in the listing of Family Members inside Protect It!. Do not confuse the "Default" user with the ".Default" user described in the section above. If you see the Default user, it's a good idea to set the appropriate restrictions just in case someone tries to logon as Default. Windows Logon It is recommended that you make Windows logon the Primary Network Logon. To verify that the Windows logon is the Primary Network Logon: Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Network icon. Click the Configuration tab. Check the field for Primary Network Logon. Normally this should be Windows Logon. Consult your system administrator or the person who configured your network before changing this setting. Changing it may affect your ability to use networking or run programs that depend on networking. Interactions with AutoPlay Certain compact discs are designed to start when you insert them into your CD-ROM drive. This is called AutoPlay. If you wish to restrict this ability, you can usually do so by removing "autorun.exe" from the list of allowed programs. Note that this is not always the case. To be sure, open the root level file on the disc called autorun.inf with notepad or some other text editor. In the file you will find a line that reads: open = with a filename after it. For example open = setup\autorun.exe Make sure that the filename (autorun.exe) is not included in the list of allowed programs unless you want your family member to be able to use AutoPlay. Note: AutoRun can also be disabled on a case-by-case basis by holding down the SHIFT key while inserting the compact disc. Using Internet Ratings Settings To use the Internet Ratings setting for all family members, you must install Internet Explorer (IE) version 3.0, or higher, or another browser that uses the Microsoft Ratings System. To install IE 3.02, follow the steps listed in the Setup section of this document for Installing Microsoft IE 3.02. If you want the ability to prevent your family members from seeing all sites, but still want to go to a particular site, do the following in Protect It! Make sure Enable Internet Ratings is checked. Click Settings. Enter a password for the Content Advisor. Click the General tab of the Content Advisor. Check the boxes that you want in the User Options field. Interactions with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 If you have Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 or higher installed when you install Microsoft Plus! for Kids, you may receive a warning about the Content Advisor being tampered with. This warning will appear because the Content Advisor settings have not been saved. To clear this warning do the following in Protect It! Click on Settings in the Family Members Options screen. When asked enter a password for the Content Advisor. Click the OK button. Modem and Internet Browser Interactions If you prevent a family member from using a modem, it will, in most cases, prevent the family member from gaining Internet access. This will depend on how your system is configured to reach an Internet Service Provider. Dial-Up Networking Protect It! cannot prevent users from running Dial-Up Networking from My Computer. This means that family members may be able to create Dial-Up Networking files. However, if you have modem restrictions turned on, the family member will not be able to access modems. Windows Startup If you restrict family members to running only certain Allowed Programs, some programs may cause error messages to be issued during startup. You can either remove these programs from Windows Startup (see Windows Help) or add them to the list of Allowed Programs in Protect It!. Deleting Users There is no safe way to remove user names from your Windows system. This means that all users entered into Windows by either Protect It! or Windows log on will appear in the list of Family Members. If you have inactive users or users that you do not wish to allow on your system, be sure to severely restrict their access. Microsoft Network Trial Version You may install The Microsoft Network (MSN) trial version by running \msn\setup.exe from the Microsoft Plus! for Kids disc. This allows you to use MSN for 30 days for free. After you install MSN, you may have to configure your system to connect to MSN. You can do this easily by installing the Internet Explorer Connection Wizard. To install the Internet Explorer Connection Wizard: Install Internet Explorer 3.02, if you have not yet done so. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to  Internet Tools, and then click Get on the Internet. Follow the instructions. SurfWatch 15-Day Trial Version SurfWatch lets you prevent X-rated Internet material from appearing on your computer. When you install SurfWatch, a list of X-rated World Wide Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, Usenet newsgroups and Internet chat rooms is installed on your computer. SurfWatch automatically filters out any sites that are on that list. No other configuring is necessary. To install the SurfWatch trial version: Start the AutoPlay program. Click the Fun Stuff button. Click the Install SurfWatch button. Follow the instructions. If you are using ProtectIt! and have restricted access to programs, be sure and add surfctl.exe to the list of Allowed Programs. This file can be found in your Windows\System directory. If you wish to remove SurfWatch, follow the instructions for removing SurfWatch in this document on your Microsoft Plus! for Kids disc: \SrfWatch\Win95\ReadMe95.doc Please note that the uninstal.exe program referenced in the document can be run from your Microsoft Plus! for Kids disc. It is located in \SrfWatch\Win95\uninstal.exe. Thanks for purchasing Microsoft Plus! for Kids!

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