Restricting Logon times

uch

Any way I can restrict logon times on a standalone XP machine ?

jameshayes

if it's for an internet café - use a long bat with nails on one end

uch

Nah it's to stop th ekids using the PC late when I'm not there, thus keeping them up half the night

paulusdu

If its not Windows XP Pro, then i don;t think that it ships with System Policy editor. You could use tis to create a system policy and restrict a lot of things

You could always hide the mouse :-)

seamus

What version of XP?

This can be done quite easily with VBScript (below).

This script checks if the current system time is between 10pm and 8am. If it is, it executes a forced shutdown on the system.

You can add this as a startup script - the machine won't even get to the logon screen before shutting down.

You could also create a scheduled task on the machine which kicks off at 10pm and runs every five minutes (say for an hour), running this script. So if someone is logged in, once 10pm comes, the machine shuts itself down and you can't log back into it.

A more sensible script would be used as a logon script and check the username of the person logged in. If it's you or the Administrator, then it proceeds. If it's anyone else, then it logs them out. This means that your machine isn't completely inaccessible after 10pm.

Of course if your kids have admin rights, then this is useless. They'll figure out how to disable it.

Dim currtime 
currtime = Hour(Now)
WScript.echo currtime
If (currtime > 22 AND currtime < 24) OR (currtime > -1 AND currtime < 8) Then
	strShutdown = "shutdown -s -t 0 -f"
    set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    objShell.Run strShutdown
End If
Wscript.Quit