Blocking Accounts

[johnno124]

So basically i usually let my younger bro use my desktop PC whilst i am at work and he even has his own account set up. However, my parents want me to temporarily disable his account as a punishment. I was trying to figure it out and i found that i can "block" his account in the accounts tab in settings. However i am not sure as to whether this will delete his files or not.  Ideally i dont want to delete his files.

 

Thanks For your help

 

[mxk]

My suggestion is just setting a password on it that he doesn't know.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

2 minutes ago, johnno124 said:

I was trying to figure it out and i found that i can "block" his account in the accounts tab in settings. However i am not sure as to whether this will delete his files or not.  Ideally i dont want to delete his files.

just change his password, solved?

[SansVarnic]

20 minutes ago, johnno124 said:

So basically i usually let my younger bro use my desktop PC whilst i am at work and he even has his own account set up. However, my parents want me to temporarily disable his account as a punishment. I was trying to figure it out and i found that i can "block" his account in the accounts tab in settings. However i am not sure as to whether this will delete his files or not.  Ideally i dont want to delete his files.

 

Thanks For your help

 

Selecting block just prevents logon. It will not delete anything.

I have this for my children on my pc as well and it has no negative effects.

 

(Negative effects may vary - screaming mad or crying child ranting due to loss of access )

[johnno124]

3 minutes ago, mxk. said:

My suggestion is just setting a password on it that he doesn't know.

 

2 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

just change his password, solved?

Im Not to sure how i can do that since it is a microsoft account.

[johnno124]

Just now, SansVarnic said:

Selecting block just prevents logon. It will not delete anything.

I have this for my children on my pc as well and it has no negative effects.

So i just click block and it effectively "Disables" the account until i unblock it. All the files remain yes

[mxk]

Just now, johnno124 said:

 

Im Not to sure how i can do that since it is a microsoft account.

uhhhh then I'm sure microsoft has something on their site for this kind of stuff. I've never used w10

[SansVarnic]

2 minutes ago, johnno124 said:

So i just click block and it effectively "Disables" the account until i unblock it. All the files remain yes

Yes

[johnno124]

Just now, SansVarnic said:

Yes

Thanks

 

[GoodBytes]

Also checkout parental features set in Windows, especially Windows 10. It has a lots of impressive options and features, including, if I am not mistaken, remotely unlock/lock accounts, set time period of when the account is unlocked and more.

[SansVarnic]

17 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Also checkout parental features set in Windows, especially Windows 10. It has a lots of impressive options and features, including, if I am not mistaken, remotely unlock/lock accounts, set time period of when the account is unlocked and more.

Yeah I forgot about that, lol.

@johnno124 its all accessible through your Microsoft account, go to the family tab and all the options are there. You can set times of day for access and you block website domains and other stuff.