It's all too easy to just go into Settings and just select "From anywhere" (the family computer is often filled with malware because of it. Just a regular computer with just one account and just wifi from the internet provider. No idea what other info I need to provide - and the computer is on Windows 10).
How can I completely and utterly disable any other settings than "From Microsoft Store"?
Hello Jack,
You can use an option in the tutorial below to choose where to get apps from to "The Microsoft Store only". It is applied to all users.
Choose Where Apps can be Installed from in Windows 10
Just one account is asking for trouble because it has to be an administrator.
Why not create an account for each family member? The 'persistent offenders' should be given standard user accounts so they cannot change this setting. The 'Choose where to get apps' option is only there for an administrator account.
User account:
Admin account:
If there were two account (if I would somehow manage to create that without messing something up) then I think the admin account would have to become password protected - and I know the one (not the offender) that uses the computer the most would have a terrible time accepting that.
But just to be completely on the safe side - since I'm not technology minded - is Option two (number 5) in Choose Where Apps can be Installed from in Windows 10 what I'm looking for?
Just one download and four things to do? That simple? (I'm not going to do it on my personal laptop, since it seems irreversible - which is what I'm kinda looking for)
It is not just apps that can be installed but software and a computing device can become infected by what are called "Drive-By" downloads.
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