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Quoth · 12-02-2021, 12:09 PM

That's a flaw in Windows that you can install at all ever in any fashion without admin rights.

Also in days of NT 4.0 (and to an extent XP) users in properly run offices, schools and colleges couldn't install software. Only Admins. Oddly easier to lock down NT 4.0 completely than XP (NT 5.1). MS reduced XP security to make it easier to install and run improperly written win9x applications.

12-02-2021, 12:09 PM	#4
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,269 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	That's a flaw in Windows that you can install at all ever in any fashion without admin rights. Also in days of NT 4.0 (and to an extent XP) users in properly run offices, schools and colleges couldn't install software. Only Admins. Oddly easier to lock down NT 4.0 completely than XP (NT 5.1). MS reduced XP security to make it easier to install and run improperly written win9x applications.