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Re: OT: Win XP admin by #%@ DEFAULT!

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Mar 19, 2007
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don cole wrote:
> 
> Dan Moyer wrote:
> > 
> > I noticed a post here advising to NOT surf the web from admin account, so
> > I decided to see how I had set up my system.
> > 
> > And I discover that I HAVE been running as admin, simply because I set 
> > my system up for single user, which is necessarily admin, and never knew to
> > 
> > set up an additional account for normal usage. (I find some info about that
> > in windows help NOW, but didn't see any WARNING when I was setting up
> > my system.)
> > 
> > So now I'd like to set up as it should be, but discover that all my
> > settings,
> > favorites, etc, of course, are NOT carried over into new non-admin account.
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest easy way to carry ALL previous user setting over to new
> > account??
> > 
> > Dan Moyer
> > (wondering if anyone else was so foolish?)
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
>   Yes I was so foolish.
> 
> I set the original (admin-account) to my girl friends name. 
> 
> (That always comes up on the guitar on start-up)
> 
> I set up no guest accounts.
> 
> I don't care or want to change it.
> 
> Anyone using the computer has to use her name. (It doesn't ask which user to
> select --This saves time logging in--). 
> 
> Nobody uses the computer but her or me.
> 
> Of course she can change the administator privilages. But I don't think she
> knows how to do this.
> 
> 
> Don Cole

Don,

Actually, if I understand it correctly, which I may not, guest accounts,
as opposed to regular user accounts, don't have any password at all, and
can't change *any* settings?  And no admin can, I think, alter admin
privileges: an account is either admin, user(limited,non-admin), or guest.

And while your way may be somewhat easier, the advice I saw here,
and similar suggestion in windows help says it's (more?) unsafe to surf
as an administrator, because malicious sites can more easily do more damage
to or make more surreptitious use of your computer if it can easily hijack 
your admin privileges.

So the point would be to eliminate that opportunity by *not* normally running
as admin, which is what I'm trying to do.  

But I'd like to "copy" all the myrid settings/histor/etc I've accumulated,
into the new user account, as easily as possible, sigh.

Dan