Karen,
I am no expert but, as I understand it, Vista only allows an administrator
account - and there are various forms of that as well - to make certain
changes: install a program, run certain programs - that sort of thing.
The user account can run most things - general programs: R:Base, Word, etc. but
cannot do the "admin" things without entering a password. That can be a bit of
a bind but if it stops unauthorised installations or access then, to me anyway,
it seems worth the hassle.
For example, I've got things like SpyBot, AdAware, DOS box, backups, set up in
my admin account and my day-to-day programs in my user account. It's easy
enough to switch from one to the other and, generally, I only use the admin
once a week when I update and run the spyware checks.
The user account is more secure simply because it can't do the things that
might be a problem. The user (me!) can still be an idiot and allow it to do
something stupid but the mere fact of needing to give myself permission makes
me think (most times). That's the same with my R:Base logins: one for owner,
two for updates and one for browsing - I have to make a (more or less)
conscious decision to change my data or change the database tables, forms, etc.
Over the years I have learnt the hard way that "just deleting that" may not be
the wisest move so I've tried to make it harder to make that mistake. Setting
up the two Vista accounts seems to have a similar effect.
Regards,
Alastair.
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Alastair,
I suppose we're getting off topic, aren't we, but I'm finding this very
interesting. I don't use Vista yet. But answer this for me -- if you have
the 2 users set up, one admin and one not, I'm assuming that the non-admin
account is MORE secure, right? Is that your "default" user, the one you would
use all the time except for those times you need an admin account? For what
purposes would you use the admin account? What kinds of things couldn't you
do as a non-admin?
Karen
From my experience I would suggest that the minimum is to set up two
accounts so that you have greater security with an admin account and a user
account. Mine is working fine now - with a few minor things still to sort
out - and the security seems to work rather well. I only wish that M$ make
this clearer in the first place and, Dell in my case, had installed two
accounts in their pre-installed set-up.
Regards,
Alastair.
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