Child Proof

Child Proof is a program that protect your computer from children by accident pressing wrong buttons or key. It hides all windows, the toolbar at the bottom and the desktop and replaces it by a toolbar with programs you allow your child to execute. This avoids most problems when children use the computer, but not all. Please read the documentation before starting Child Proof. For more information see the readme file.

Disclaimer

Child Proof is distributed as-is. The author takes no responsibility whatsoever for any damage, direct or indirect, that might occur from using this program. No guarantee is given that the system is completely protected from children behavior. See the documentation for some potential problems!

Some of the features of Child Proof have reported not to work under Windows XP so you are recommended not to use the program under that OS. Child Proof is longer maintained or developed further. You can though download the source code below to develop it further yourself.

Download

The program is available for free. Download the file below and execute it to install Child Proof.

Child Proof version 1.0 (0.7 MB) (for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT4)

Source code

I have stopped to develop Child Proof any further. All my time now goes into Game Maker. So, because many people have asked me about extending the possibilities of Child Proof I have decided to make the source code available. Child Proofwas written in Delphi. It is not a simple program so don't start working on it unless you are an experienced Delphi programmer. The source code is distributed under the Mozilla Public Licence which give you ample freedom to create and distribute new versions. For more information see the readme file.

Source code of Child Proof version 1.0 (1.0 MB)