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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't understand that. Could you elaborate?
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I think he means, be logged in as the user administrator, but not really have the authority of an Administrator.
As far as that goes, I'm not sure. MS was stupid when they switched from a single user to multiuser system, to have the default account be Administrator. No other OS does that. Basically removes many of the positive features of being multiuser. Anyone gets access to your system, and they automatically have full access to mess things up. Anyone who doesn't know what they're doing, can mess things up. A proper multiuser OS, has an administrator account that is only used for system wide changes, and for all other usage, everyone has a personal account and they can only change things that effect them. If things are done properly, if you get a virus under this sort of thing, worst case scenario, you blow out just that account, and all other accounts can continue using that computer uneffected. Admin, or Root, gets compromised and everything gets hosed.
In my opinion, MS was stupid for being single user for so long. They didn't switch to that for consumers until XP in 2001.