I previously reported our children's attempts to crack our home computer password in order to play video games at 6am on weekdays. Since then, on the weekends I've set the password to be the answer to a math problem in the hint text. This doesn't really stop them from getting up at 5am to play, but while there are good controls on Vista and beyond, our desktop runs XP, where the parental controls are a little more crude.
But then I got tired of changing the password back and forth on the main account, and decided they didn't really need access to the account that has admin privileges (not that they know what to do with that, yet), so we finally created a second account on the box. The problem: Steam won't run unless you have write privileges to the directory. I read several unhelpful forum threads that indicated either no workaround or a complicated one, before stumbling across a link to Moving a Steam Installation and Games. Perfect! It can go somewhere under the "All users" directory or, better yet, to the external hard drive (which is 1TB, vs. 145GB on the main computer) -- and 30GB suddenly freed up. w00t. Now we'll just have to see if the gaming experience running across the USB connection is acceptable.
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