Re: Validation of XP

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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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So you basically agree that it's not the OS that is faulty, it's bad
practices and the fact that Windows is so friendly to apps that themselves
are faulty. I'm always hearing people complain that Windows doesn't do
this or that natively, and one of those things is malware protection. If
Windows did all those things, MS would be hit with more anti-trust
litigation than they already have been. I would think that even making
Windows do some kind of quality control of apps would have similar
results.

As for the default admin account, I'm of two minds. Especially during
initial setup, admin permissions are frequently required. I certainly
wouldn't want the default to be a limited user account, but that's me -- I
run as an admin all the time and don't have any resulting problems because
I'm diligent about other good practices. With the way I use Windows, it
would be a royal PITA to be switching back & forth. Only thing I can think
of is to make a very strong, in-your-face greeting that would push you to
create a limited user account and explain in detail why this is good
practice, but not force it.


I would agree that running as an admin account is not a good thing to do.
Unfortunately, you don't have a great deal of option. Many applications are
written in a way that they won't run in anything other than an administrator
account. Have you any idea how many applications make an alteration to the
registry when starting up and another when closing down? This can only
happen when in administrator mode.


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