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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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| 128843 | 2003-03-18 20:24:00 | Gorela, So it's like a more advanced version of the ME system restore? OK, that makes sense. Still sounds like i need to play with it a bit first hand to know what i am doing. The idea of trying it on my system seems an interesting idea. As was revealed in the above posts, i was looking to find out more so that it can be at some point be tried for Dyan. I have a 5 gig "windows" partition that the man who bought me the original SuSE disks insisted that i should have. Is that likely to be enough for XP? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 128844 | 2003-03-18 20:51:00 | Ho Clueless Keep thinking out loud about the XP. I'm thinking of moving from Win98SE, but have not done so to date because of the reams of problems people seem to encounter. Any spare room in that bomb shelter? |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 128845 | 2003-03-18 20:53:00 | Oh, and thanks to Kiwibeat for reply to my earlier question about Go Back's thrashing about. Not being a gamer I had not noticed. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 128846 | 2003-03-18 21:06:00 | Scouse, My non Linux computer is win98SE as well.. perhaps that would be a better one to try XP on so that my Linux box remain a dedicated machine. Dual/multi booting is probably not a good thing to try out on a machine that is the gateway to the internet for everything else. As for room in the BOMB shelter... yeah.. i got so much room here that there are even parts of the hallway where you can see the floor! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 128847 | 2003-03-19 02:37:00 | As far as I can see, one of the "features" of XP is that the Administrator can set up the machine as required, then make accounts for ordinary users. When an ordinary user is logged in, what they can do is controlled by the access and policy setup. If the system is locked down properly, they can run programmes. As long as the Administrator password is a secret, that's all they can do. Of course, the Adminstrator uses an ordinary account for all ordinary work. This is a Library machine running XP. I can use a browser. That's it. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 128848 | 2003-03-19 06:30:00 | On my XP comp, I'm the only user. I'm also the administrator. I disabled the default "admin" account and the guest account, and the only other accounts active are the ones required by IIS. I do all my work under my admin account. Though I have sometimes contemplated making a separate account to use when I'm not doing any high-level tasks, there are several things against this. 1. I often perform tasks that would require the admin password if I were not a member of the Administrators group. 2. My profile has been set up too long to make a new one - it would be too much hassle to replicate all my settings etc. 3. I lock my computer when I'm away from it - particularly when CyberChuck is around. 4. I would actually rather change my account to a Power User account and re-enable the admin account password - but I can't remember if I set a password for it, and if I did, I'm not sure what it would have been. |
agent (30) | ||
| 128849 | 2003-03-19 13:38:00 | 5Gigs is fine. That box running 98SE might not be suitable for XP. It is a new system, so likes to run on reasonably new hardware. I've played my way around XP over the last 6months, and have a decent understanding of it. I have not had serious troubles with my Pro, however the mouse has been playing up recently. I find XP to be a secure and sound fit for the tasks I run on it - ME couldn't cope. All the settings are easy to play around with, and can even be turned off - if needed. With a regular defrag, a virus checker, and maybe a firewall, you should have NO troubles. I ran a test in a "limited" user account, and found it wouldn't do anything (as I said) like install/uninstall any software. With a massive arsenal of helpful proggies, I have customised my machine and am no longer part of the MS monopoly (apart from the actual OS). I recommend it, as I also recommend any flavour of LINUX. radz :p ps. I'm happier here, no crappy war here lol:D |
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| 128850 | 2003-03-19 18:54:00 | raddersnz, I assume that you realise that both my toys are built around AMD450 with 256meg-0-RAM on VA503+ mobos? You reckon thats enough for XP eyecandy? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 128851 | 2003-03-19 22:43:00 | Clueless, The 5Gb Windows area is better to be thought of as a "segment" rather than a partition. A good spot to store windows programs and files so they are accessible to your Windows PC. By trying to load the XP OS to that area you would lose access to your linux. You would have to load the XP first and then re-install the linux after that. As you mentioned perhaps dual booting the 98SE would be the better bet. OT PS When you installed Pureftp, what options did you use? Or did you just use ./configure with no options? |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 128852 | 2003-03-19 23:47:00 | Gorela, Thanks for that advice.. Should i decide to have a wee play with XP, it will definatly be on the 98SE machine (Vanessa) as i have now 3 good reasones to leave Sam "pure" being that you just said, the fact that sam is the gateway to the internet, and therefore should be always on SuSE, and the fact that I LIKES dedicated Linux, where as Vanessa is there to try "other things" on. .Clueless |
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