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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl) Subject: Windows user privileges --On Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:19 AM -0500 Mike Hoye <mhoye@...n.polkaroo.net> wrote: > > On every XP install that I've seen from every major OEM (Dell, Compaq, > Gateway, etc) fast user switching is on by default and every user is > an administrator. Not "on most"; on every single one. > > Furthermore, these machines don't have actual XP OS install CDs, they > usually come with "restore" CDs that just return the PC to this same > initial state if they're used, which they almost never are. > > I have never seen a home user, that is to say change that setting or > create a user who is actually just a "User". Not once, ever. > And this is a flaw of the *OS*? Or of the *OEM*? Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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