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| | Basic admin question. One computer, one user situation. Is it safe to say that in Vista, it would be the best scenario to create a user account, resulting in just admin and that user account, then give that user account full admin, then just use that user account? If I understand, using a user acct with admin permission is not the same as using the plain #1 admin account, and the scenario above would still require admin permission for progs needing to do admin things? I have read that it is NOT advisable to use just the admin account as a regular-use account. Is this the ideal, most secure away, avoiding running admin acct as the only user? Thanks! -- Sandman-XX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandman-XX's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=21644 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=674725 http://forums.techarena.in |
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| | Re: Basic admin question. Hello, You should never use "the" built-in Administrator account in Windows Vista. Administrator accounts in Vista (except for the built-in administrator account) run in approval mode, which means programs that do not request permission from the user do not run with admin privileges. In effect, you get the benefit of running as a standard user when logged in as an administrator. If you wish, you can create a standard user account and use it day-to-day; if you attempt to run a program that requires administrator privileges from a standard user account, it will request your administrative user account and password in order to proceed. -- - JB Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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