Especially when it takes admin priveledges to install most anything. A lot of corp environments give Windows users admin rights by default. Saves on tech support calls.
Snort.
Microsoft: Take a week off--unpaid
- (bluke)
- (20)
- May 23, 2006, 07:13:59 PM EDT
Microsoft is losing it
- (JayMehaffey)
- (19)
- May 23, 2006, 08:49:53 PM EDT
Which just means it does more damage on the way down.
-NT
- (inthane-chan)
- May 24, 2006, 12:15:09 AM EDT
Yep, early reports on latest vista beta
- (tuberculosis)
- (17)
- May 24, 2006, 01:20:46 PM EDT
Vista is staggeringly crap
- (pwhysall)
- (16)
- May 24, 2006, 03:35:11 PM EDT
But but but ...
- (drewk)
- (15)
- May 24, 2006, 04:31:17 PM EDT
Right - I haven't a clue where Word's "safe mode" switch is
- (tuberculosis)
- (13)
- May 24, 2006, 04:40:35 PM EDT
Start button, Run, notepad
-NT
- (Silverlock)
- May 24, 2006, 04:53:34 PM EDT
That was great
- (drewk)
- May 24, 2006, 05:05:49 PM EDT
Create an alternate login without admin priviliges
- (hnick)
- (10)
- May 24, 2006, 05:34:46 PM EDT
You assume no bugs in Windows' authorization system
- (ben_tilly)
- (6)
- May 24, 2006, 08:02:54 PM EDT
I would never assume such a thing.
- (hnick)
- (5)
- May 25, 2006, 06:25:29 AM EDT
Then what's the point of creating a limited user account?
-NT
- (ben_tilly)
- (4)
- May 25, 2006, 06:54:09 PM EDT
On released versions or Vista?
- (hnick)
- (3)
- May 26, 2006, 07:34:57 AM EDT
Remind me not to use Vista...
-NT
- (ben_tilly)
- (2)
- May 26, 2006, 05:45:26 PM EDT
Peter's job, stridently, I believe, but...
- (hnick)
- May 26, 2006, 05:53:31 PM EDT
Hey, Ben?
- (drewk)
- May 30, 2006, 09:13:57 AM EDT
Windows admin rights are a pain.
- (Silverlock)
- (2)
- May 24, 2006, 09:41:54 PM EDT
THE LACK OF Windows admin rights IS a pain.
-NT
- (tuberculosis)
- (1)
- May 25, 2006, 02:48:53 AM EDT
Two levels of security - All or Nothing.
-NT
- (ChrisR)
- May 25, 2006, 10:25:55 AM EDT
That's about to change with Office 12.
- (pwhysall)
- May 25, 2006, 06:59:51 AM EDT
