On 1 Aug 2005 at 16:12, Diane Poremsky wrote:

> Limited is really limited - many people run as admin if they
 ...want to get any work done. Bill is the only person I know that's
 ... using limited. I have a few limited accounts set up for testing, but
 ... they are too limited for real work.  ...

How smug, ridiculous, and insulting: I run in a limited account ALL the 
time (on all OSs I use), but I guess the petty stuff I do doesn't count 
as real work.  FEH. Maybe your problem with a limited account is that 
you're not familiar enough with the XP protection machinery to get it set 
up properly, since it is a pretty minimal problem if you get it tuned...  


> Limited accounts are more for kids (and adults) who screw things up.
 ..I'd never recommend it for a responsible person. 

I was going to reply to your post, but I'll let this stand as one of the  
of the most surprising and basically ill-informed and wrongheaded 
comments on operating system security I have *EVER* read.  The very 
notion that one makes an OS secure for the sake of the incompetents and 
the irresposibles is both laughable and ridiculous [and not to mention 
inconsistent with your arguments about why it was OK for MS to leave 
XP/Home with an unuseable limited account]

  /Bernie\

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