I strongly suggest that you set up an administrator account that is separate from the user account that you do your work in, and remove system administration privileges from that user account. Even though it is a bit of an annoyance to have to login as administrator to install software, it's the correct way to run nearly any modern operating system (Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX ...)
I set up every system Mac OS X I am contracted to work on this way. With very very few exceptions, it works exactly as it is supposed to. There are a couple of 'still not yet properly sorted' applications that require the user to have administrator privileges ... they should be avoided. Godfrey On May 5, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied - looks like I'll pack these drives as > full as possible! I did no know that system restore could be disabled > on an individual drive basis - so I'm going to do that as well. > > I was toying with the idea of creating a new, non-administrator > user and > setting these drives as read-only for that profile (once they are > fully > loaded etc.) That would prevent accidental over-writes or erasures, > but > I'm not sure if being a non-administrator would cause many headaches > (other than having to log off and back in when installing software > etc.) > > I wound up buying a 5th drive today - the sale was over, a new sale > was > on but this one was $20 more. So it goes - I missed a set of 150 CD's > when I did my initial calculations - between that, the fact that the > drives hold 40 gigs each less than I thought, plus the slack space > loss, > it looks like I'll need the 5th drive... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
