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

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> 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. Plus, a separate account for everyone uses a horrendous amount of
> hard
> drive space (even in these days of multi gig drives).
> 
> Chris
> 
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> 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.
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I used to have one admin account on my two Windows computers with regular user
accounts for myself and other family members. However regular user accounts are
very crippled with regards to installing and running certain software and
everyone needed to log into that admin account for almost anything -- even
installing a browser plugin.

I think XP Home is probably more crippled than XP Pro when it comes to this,
though. XP Pro has finer grained security management. It's still probably broken
though.

The last time I reinstalled Windows on both machines I just left regular users
as admin (the default) and make sure I'm running firewall/virus scanner.

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j.