Re: Winamp & Multi-users?

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From: Ben Blackmore (bjblackmore_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:46:48 -0000

I have set up myself an account, called ben, although it is part of the
admin group. I see what you mean though, I might lower the group to power
using on it tonight!

"Grok" <grok@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:qn6360t50cvqd3f521ahrt454j086m3q95@4ax.com...
> One should not work as Administrator on your machine, unless you are
> managing security. On occasions you need to manage security, log on
> to Administrator and do the work, then switch back to your regular
> user account. OR, if you are running Win2000 server or Win2003
> Server, install Terminal Services in administrative mode, TS into
> yourself as Admin and do the work.
>
> The only purpose of an Administrator is to manage security! Thus, by
> running normal programs as Admin, you are enabling all said programs
> elevated permissions to do evil things to your system. So get in the
> habit of using the least-privileged account required for your daily
> work, and you will be happier in the long run.
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:29:48 GMT, bill.gates@microsoft.com (Lurch)
> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:23:41 -0000, in uk.comp.os.win2000 "Ben
> >Blackmore" <bjblackmore@nospam.hotmail.com> strung together this:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I dunno if this is the right newsgroup to be asking this, if not sorry.
> >>
> >>I have set up a Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) PC at home, where I have an
account,
> >>and my girlfriend has an account. I have set myself up as an
administrator,
> >>and her as a standard user. I installed winamp on my account and it
works
> >>fine, however when I run it from her account it crashes with a
studio.exe
> >>error. I have tried installing it from her account, which installs ok,
but
> >>then when you run it, it still crashes!
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >>
> >Try changing her account to an Administrator. I did that on all my W2K
> >machines and it fixed a whole host of niggling problems!
>

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