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 > > > =================================================================================== > There is a train of thought that a generalist knows a little about a lot of > things, > and that a specialist knows a lot about very little. > If you took this to the extreme, you could become so specialised so as to know > everything there was to know about nothing. > > =================================================================================== > > <a href="http://euallegro.wikispaces.com">http://euallegro.wikispaces.com</a> > <a > href="http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/euphoria.htm">http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/euphoria.htm</a> > <a href="http://uboard.proboards32.com/">http://uboard.proboards32.com/</a> > <a > href="http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/EUSQLite/eusql.html">http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/EUSQLite/eusql.html</a>