At 08/01/2005, Diane Poremsky wrote:
I'm constantly installing and testing software (on both home and
pro) - limited doesn't have install rights and logging off and on as
an admin is time consuming. You obviously feel it's time well spent - I don't.
Fast-user switching and leaving the admin account up is an option?
Actually, most of the time I don't log into my admin account to
install or remove software. If it's something I've downloaded, I
just right-click and select "Run as...". If it's something on a
disk, I just hold down the shift key as I insert the disk to prevent
the autorun program from engaging, then just open the disk in My
Computer and right-click the setup program. On the rare occasion
that that doesn't work, I log into the admin account.
Another handy trick is to right-click the IE icon on the quick-launch
toolbar and click "Run as..." (If you don't use that toolbar, just
put an IE shortcut on the desktop and set it up to run with different
credentials.) Anyway, once this admin-enabled instance of IE opens,
you can type My Computer, Control Panel, My Network Places, etc. in
the address bar and voila! You have an admin-enabled instance of those open.
I don't buy that limited is just for kids or adults who would screw
things up. I'm a responsible person and I still run limited. I've
been doing it for more than a year now with very little problem. In
fact, the only time I have issues is when installing older software
-- usually for my wife -- that isn't XP compliant. A last resort
usually entails changing the command line for that app to add "runas"
so that it can run as Admin. I don't like to do it, but sometimes
that is the only way to make it work.
--
Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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