Nowadays multi-user operating systems (such as
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP) are reality in many homes. Coming
pre-installed on modern computers these operating systems provide easy and
comfortable way of using a single PC by all or some members of the family.
Family Key Logger being a tool to monitor
typing activity of your family can utilize most up-to-date technologies offered
by such operating systems to give you chance to see and know what your kids are
doing when they face vast cyberspace.
However installing and configuring Family Key
Logger in multi-user environments may sometimes be tricky as it may require
additional knowledge of administering multi-user systems. This guide is
intended to ease the process of setting up and configuring Family Key Logger.
Follow the simple steps discussed below and you will be ready to relax in
seconds.
To proceed further you should probably
familiarize with some technical terms used in text below. If you feel that you
are an advanced computer user and you know basics of multi-user environments
proceed to the next section.
Administrator account – is the first (on newly installed
operating systems the only) account. Administrator account is the subject of
unlimited (administrative) rights, i.e. if you are logged in as an
administrator you can add and delete users of your machine, manage their
rights, set user’s folders and disk quotas as well as close programs run under
other accounts and shutdown user sessions. The account itself may have any
name. To see if it is the administrative account you can open Control Panel and
then select Users (User Accounts). In the window that appears you will see the
description of each existing account on the system. The administrator’s
software can write data both to per-user and to per-machine sections of system
registry.
Guest accounts – is a common group of accounts on
WindowsNT\2000\XP operating systems that represent users with rights other than
administrative. These accounts are created and controlled by system
administrator. Important note: the Guest account created by default has the
following rights restrictions: user can run programs installed by
administrator, install his own programs and modify any data permitted to be
modified by administrator. The Guest user’s software can write data to per-user
section of registry only. By default Guest users can modify data in ‘Program
Files’ folder. However, keep in mind that some administrator may configure user
rights of Guests in such a way that some or all of rights mentioned above may
not apply to Guest accounts.
The first task you will need to accomplish in
order to get all the things flying is correctly install Family Key Logger on
your computer(s).
Generally, remember the following: you should log-in
to your computer with administrator rights to install Family Key Logger fast
and easily. This is essential since only the administrator of the system has
the right to make Family Key Logger start automatically for every user on your
system. Moreover, if you are logged in as a ‘guest’ (guest rights apply) on
some systems you may not have the right to even install and definitely
un-install programs.
Now, if your system has default rights
restrictions for Guest users simply start the Family Key Logger installation
program and install software with default settings.
In case that you (or other person with
administrative rights) have altered default Guest rights and users under Guest
log in cannot modify data in Program Files folder do the following: start the
Family Key Logger installation program and install software to some folder that
has no restriction for Guest user’s software to write to.
After the installation is complete you should
set the Family Key Logger options (once again being logged in under
Administrator account). If your goal is to monitor your relatives typing set
the options as follows:
We also recommend removing traces of
installation of Family Key Logger both from Start Menu and from Uninstall List.
To do so, press appropriate buttons in Options window.
Now you can see what your family members are
typing!