On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 07:51 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I advised my family to buy XP Pro rather than Home, thinking this would make > the difference, but it doesn't. There's still only User, totally > locked-down, and Administrator, totally open. > > I've been told that it's possible to force XP to allow limited rights as in > W2K, but no-one has told me how to do it, and I haven't discovered it. You will want to be careful if you want to use only accounts with restricted rights. Some applications will only work as Administrator, and if your user's computer needs to join a NT or Active Directory domain, sometimes you need to assign Administrator rights to a normal user so that things like Antivirus updates or patches can be pushed to them when they logon. With Windows systems, there is nothing quite like having technicians or engineers on-call 24/7. And a set of spare laptops/desktops just in case. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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