Re: Advice sought on Running XP Home SP2 as Admin or Limited User


"Bill" <stanton@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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GSD
Based on what you say, I would agree that there's no point in
having multiple user accounts. As long as you have a good
firewall and antivirus clients on your system in addition to
adware, you should get along just fine running your system
with a single account.

The MVP's might disagree, but you would be wise to put your
settings for Windows updates such that they are allowed to
download automatically, but that you simply be notified that
they are ready to install. THEN, look at what updates are
queued for installation and decide if you want them installed.

Make a note to yourself regarding the use of scheduled tasks,
in that your single user account MUST HAVE A PASSWORD
in order that that user account be used as the authorizing user
in running the task. Having done that, the next question is how
do you get around having to enter a password just to use your
own computer??? The answer is that you "Run"
"Control userpasswords2". That option will give you a dialog
box wherein you can specify that your primary user account
(you) is not required to enter a password. That is something
you'll want to do in the next day or so, even if you don't
expect to use scheduled tasks anytime soon.

Bill


Bill , I am a little confused when you say getting along with a single
account do you mean the Admin Account by itself or the a Limited Account.
I have already set the Auto Update feature to just notify me when available
,as I am not a fan of things Automatic on my computer I like to see what is
going on first with all programmes . The only program I set on Auto download
is my Anti virus definition updater .

When you refer to Scheduled tasks what are you referring to, as I indicated
I have no scheduled tasks except for the CA Antivirus updates and I do not
think this depends upon a user account password . Everything else , all
maintenance tasks I run manually . I suppose being a retire person with time
on my hands I ca afford to do this . By the way my ADSL Modem has a NAT
Router built in which does provide greater protection as I understand
things .Thanks for your patience

GSD


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