im looking for a vista shell or theme for my 5 year old

can anyone direct me to where i can find something to have vista set up for my 5 year old daughter. like something where she can only click on certain things and the rest is locked out with a kids theme...

anyone have any suggestions? she mostly goes to like disney playhouse and noggin online etc. i have her bocked from anything but her web sites with norton parental controls but id like her to have a kids type of desktop..

thanks

 

Styles XP, stardocks.. etc. You can download or make your own themes to apply them to your desktop.
You can use windows steady state to lock down everything including, C drives, system files, almost all unnecessary things. You can also deny every other website besides the ones that's suitable for your daughter. Also, you can uninstall norton and lock your hdd. That way, you won't have norton wasting yoru system resources and you'll never get a virus..etc.

 

yeah but i use it at times and im the admin so i want nortons on there anyway. i want to be able to boot to her name and then its set up for a 5 year old

 

norton 2009 doesnt use much system resources anyways, so it shouldnt be a worry

 

http://lifehacker.com/5131707/kidrocket-protects-your-kids-and-computer

 

exactly.. i want something really fun looking and with only icons for her web sites and she like type in notepad... and maybe for her mickey game icons

 

thanks thats kinda cool and exactly the type of things im looking for. are there any other alternatives even a paid program. id like something with a super basic desktop that looks really kiddie-ish

 

steadystate should make it possible to configure your system to be closed down, and it's completely free. we use it for kiosk-like systems and other.

it doesn't bring another theme, though. but that should be findable

 

You can use the built-in parental controls to lock down access to stuff like the file system and specific programs. Then hide all the desktop elements for that limited account. From there, you can create a new desktop environment using something like AveDesk or Samurize - essentially just place big icons on the desktop pointing at things that the account does have access to.

 

Whoa! You've managed to answer a question I didn't even know I wanted the answer to yet! I, too, have been trying to set up a system for my 4.5 y.o. daughter exactly as Zfactor described - locked down kiddie-style user account for her, with an administrator's account I can use to manage the system and her account. What you've posted to looks like it just might make my task a whole lot easier. Thanks!