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| Thread ID: 31282 | 2003-03-17 09:46:00 | XP how secure is it from guests installing programs? | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 128833 | 2003-03-18 00:43:00 | Yes you can set the XP system up so that it is more secure - but there is also another area that is so important and one that not nearly enough people actually do. I have to agree with Kiwibeat here - imaging your hard drive when you have got it running as near perfect as possible, that is, complete with all service packs, necessary codexes, program updates and settings, etc etc, is the smartest move you can make regarding your system security. You just have to remember to regularly backup your 'My Documents' and other vital areas such as email etc, so that when you restore your image (which is normally very fast unless you have excessive gigabytes of storage to copy back) all you have to do is just copy back your backups to their appropriate areas. I highly reccommend 'Drive Image 2002'. It's very easy to use and will also give you the option of splitting your image to CD R size pieces so that you can burn them to disk to give the extra protection / option of keeping the image off the hard drive in case of that dreaded 'hard drive failure'. Regards PF1 :-) |
PressF1 User (1065) | ||
| 128834 | 2003-03-18 01:41:00 | Ho Kiwiabeat Just catching up with this thread - you said.... ""Go Back will revert but thrashs the HDD"" As a long time and regular user of GoBack, I'm interested in what the thrashes the HDD means. Be obliged if you could expand some time. Thanks Scouse. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 128835 | 2003-03-18 01:42:00 | A wise choice my dear... particularly with the full moon arisin'.... Dyan |
Dyan (2333) | ||
| 128836 | 2003-03-18 03:55:00 | Clueless... What is the definition of a M$ kinda gal ???? When PC desktop systems became a major work production tool in my humble life, the most prolific OS was a Microsoft product. But if the OS flavour of the day had of been called Linux, Raw Oats, FullMoon or Guerilla Snotte, ad infinitum, then that would be the one I would be most familiar with... so the label is kinda redundant. As long as the job gets done and gets done quickly... in other words... time is short and the moment is fleeting for the likes of me to navigate around another OS right now... perhaps when all the deadlines are met... My preference is that any spare time is spent contemplating your navel. |
Dyan (2333) | ||
| 128837 | 2003-03-18 04:13:00 | Bloody hell! *thinks i will put my foot in it no matter what i say now* I still want to know about XP security, be it an academic question or not. It is something that may be an option for many situations, including (yes Dyan) the inevitible re-formatting of your machine. PressF1 User, Thankyou for your answer. So far it is the most informative. It looks like the best way i am going to find these things out is to have a good go at a XP machine and see what i can/can't do with it. .Clueless |
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| 128838 | 2003-03-18 05:36:00 | It means that it is constantly active updating any and every change which can be irritating slows down your access time etc no good for gaming also means more wear and tyear heat etc I put up with it because it is very good at reducing silly errors botch ups but with a image saved it isnt necessary just have to move latest downloaded stuff to a seperat drive and reinstall image in about 10 mins or so for my C: drive |
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| 128839 | 2003-03-18 08:39:00 | kiwibeat, That process sounds a little scary to me. Surely it would just be easyer to just make sure there are back ups of any important data, and if things ever got that bad, just reformat/replace drive? .Clueless |
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| 128840 | 2003-03-18 10:02:00 | Instead of locking the computer away in a cupboard, remove the keyboard. Like those removable face-plate car stereos | Baldy (26) | ||
| 128841 | 2003-03-18 10:18:00 | Did that with the mouse once, and keyboard skills were learnt real fast that weekend. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 128842 | 2003-03-18 12:54:00 | Clueless, What Kiwibeat is saying is to make a copy of your OS after you have installed all the updates. While it might only take about half an hour to load your OS on to the hard drive, it takes quite a few hours to load all of the patches back on. An alternative to using drive imaging software (with your setup, anyway) is to load the OS onto a small partition and then dd that partition onto your linux box and then use one of the zip programs to reduce the file size for archiving. If you used XP though I would have thought that the restore function would be an easy way aroung people loading programs that you aren't happy with. I have only played with XP a couple of times, but it appears to creat a restore point automatically before loading a new program. Also the restore function doesn't seem to affect the "My Documents" file. |
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