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Help for disabled user in Windows 10
I am helping a friend who has cerebral palsy, lives in a group home, but loves to use her computer to play children games. Until now she has used a pc running Windows XP which I had customized for her and which she used happily for years. She just received a new desktop PC running Windows 10 which I will need to set up for her but I am not an expert on Windows 10. Because she is mentally retarded (mental age 5) and physically handicapped she needs certain customizations which I will list here. Any help with how to do this will be greatly appreciated.
1. In her prior XP PC, I had set up shortcut icons on her desktop for all her games so she can just click on them to start them. She does that very well. Because of her eratic hand motion sometimes these desktop icons get moved around or even deleted. So, I set the XP desktop so that when she reboots, the desktop I had arranged for her gets restored "just as I had it", ignoring whatever changes she had made. Not sure I remember how I achieved this.
How can I achieve that in Windows 10? How do I lock her desktop arrangement so it restores itself as set up on reboot?
2. I will also obviously not leave her as an administrator user. I will make her a limited user. Is it possible to make it impossible for her to access the computer's files so she cannot accidentally delete or change anything?
3. She has sole access to this Windows 10 pc. So she does not need to "login". How do I remove the need to enter a username and password on boot up, while leaving a hidden administrator user for me to use to install and fix things?
4. She does not have internet access because she could not use it alone and I know how to customize the taskbar and the Start menu so it does not provide access to items that could be harmful. Any other suggestions to protect her pc from her causing havoc?
Thank you for any help you can provide.