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I have seen this over and over stated here, so I spent the morning setting up a user account to
myself to see of this really works.

It doesn't. Granted there are a few things I
can't do, but not much. The only thing that's
protected is the admin's personal directory. It
only takes a single program that opens a shell to
be able to open any other directory on this machine. I can open and manipulate the "programs"
and "windows" directories. I can drag a program
onto my desktop. I can write or delete virtually
anything on this machine. It seems to me that,
short of emptying the "Start" and "Program's"
menu as well as the desktop (can't have a "recycle
bin".....it opens the shell), this machine is no
more protected from a virus or a worm than if I
was logged on as the admin.

I tried another route. As the admin, I opened the
shell and right clicked on the "Programs" folder
to set "Sharing and Security" permissions. They're
greyed out. Anything the operatng system needs to
run has to have open permissions. You can only
protect personal folders. Anything Windows can
get to, anyone else can get to.

Long story short, this is an eroneous belief. The
multi-user setup in Win XP does not offer any more
protection short of turning it into a store shelf
screensaver display, but then that's different
from other versions of windows how?

Who's credibility are we talking about now?
Posted by: Fritz001   Posted on: 07/20/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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You're out of date  wolf_z | 07/20/04
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