Limited users in Windows XP
May 31st, 2006
It’s been a while since I’ve pointed you to an article by Brian Krebs and I’ve resisted the temptation once before, but now he’s written another excellent piece on how to make your Windows XP user experience more secure and probably keep your kids from installing all kinds of stuff you really don’t want. He explains two different approaches, one using an administrator account, but dropping privileges for certain programs to heighten security and one where you use a limited user account and only run certain software with administrator privileges. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, I prefer the option with the limited user accounts, but they make the use of some software slightly more complicated. Anyway, the explanations he gives are really excellent and I think this should be required reading for every Windows XP user. Go and have a look.
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1. Ryan Pogue | October 8th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I have read the article by Brian Krebs and found it help full, thank you.
I found that I can only run a Print Shop 10 app using the suggested “run as†method.
Do you know of any VB scripts that could invoke the “run as†method behind the scenes.
I don’t want to explain to my mother in-law about users right or why she would have to enter a user name and password? I would really appreciate any help.
Thank in advance,
Ryan
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