Microsoft made a few quiet but great changes to its kid-proofing SteadyState tool for Windows 7, changing the name to Guest Mode and trimming it into a dead-simple way to protect your PC from anyone's error-prone fingers.
Guest Mode isn't the same as the "Guest Account" sometimes enabled on your system. In early builds of Windows 7, it was dubbed PC Safeguard, but someone at Microsoft—probably not in the Windows Live division—caught on that it was a pretty wonky name, and sounded like circa-1999 boxed fakeware. Now it's just a feature of the User Accounts setup that an administrator can enable or disable, with one sub-option to control drive access.
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