In article <3b99866f$1@news.povray.org> , "Thomas Lake" <tla### [at] homecom> 
wrote:

>> And even better, one can't even be sure if a user runs as Administrator on
>> NT/2k/etc because at least I know plenty of people who have no clue that
>> they shouldn't run that way by default...
>
> Wouldn't this all depend on the user and the machine he's on? If your using
> a home machine which you and ONLY you use and you have taken reasonable
> security precautions, and is fairly well versed in windows, then I don't see
> much of a problem running in Admin all the time.

Indeed, there aren't many reasons in such a case, but for example viruses
are a typical user problem because people don't manage to install anti-virus
software.  If running as admin and you get such problems the only way to get
out of it (most of the time) is to reinstall the system.  If running as user
(provided a reasonable setup) it should be possible to recover data more
easily as at least the system should still be functioning (allowing to
install the anti-virus software after the system is infected) in most cases,
but of course, theory and practice running Windows are different... ;-)

    Thorsten

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