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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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Chris Burch wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I run as admin too - everyone else in the family uses that too - I decided
> that separate accounts for everyone in the family would lead to too many
> IT support issues, and that it was less hassle just to anti virus, anti
> trojan,
> firewall, and monitor my kids MSN ing. I haven't had any probs to date with
> malware. 

So maybe my concern is much ado about nothing?

>Plus, a separate account for everyone uses a horrendous amount of hard
> drive space (even in these days of multi gig drives).

You sure?? it sounds unlikely to me, off the top of my head: user files would
seem to be the same whether they are in a separate account or not, and user
settings wouldn't really seem to be that much extra, would they??  Just some
text files for "user preferences", history, favorites, etc.?

Dan

> 
> Chris
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