Accessibility Options are not particularly related to age and neither is access to the control panel (win98). I couldn't find anything at the MS web site dealing with age management levels either. If it's his personal computer then hopefully, it just some lariat yanking going on. Someone could be messing with your friend with a baby-sitting program, malware, your friend could be messing with you or you could be messing with us. However, since someone did change the password, then who knows what else they may have placed on the computer. He needs to make sure it's free of virus's etc.

The previous folks listed some things that will free his computer of virus/trojans etc and after your friend accomplishes those; assuming that someone had physical access to his computer, most Setup Utilities will allow you to set a password to prevent unwanted access to system and/or setup. Just have him follow the User's Guide for his Mainboard to set the password. Just a note, a screen saver password (win98) will not keep someone out they can just reboot the box. However this time when they reboot they will have to enter the correct password to gain access before any OS loads. That should keep the average prankster out.

Hope this helps.

Cheers