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So, does anyone else do so, or is everyone lazy and run everything as admin?

I run as restricted user, and use runas on Explorer when I admin shell access (to simulate "su"). It appears you have to check "run as a seperate process" for this to work though. Configuring some things is rather annoying- have to occasionally promote and demote myself to install things.

Admin, of course. When I don't want people messing with my shit, which is anytime I'm not at my PC, I just use Windows-L.

Pu-239 wrote:So, does anyone else do so, or is everyone lazy and run everything as admin?

How is it lazy? More like "the smart thing to do"... and for proof, I cite your griping about having to switch between accounts.

I run as a power user most of the time. When I need to install something system-wide, then I'll typically use the Run As option.

It has nothing on sudo, but it works in a pinch.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:

Pu-239 wrote:So, does anyone else do so, or is everyone lazy and run everything as admin?

How is it lazy? More like "the smart thing to do"... and for proof, I cite your griping about having to switch between accounts.

Well, Windows user switching sucks, and this behavior is ingrained into me, and I cite those who have infested their PCs w/ spyware.

Then again, in my case it's pointless, since I don't go online much when using Windows, and I also use dialup, and don't do anything stupid.

I always run administrator. But I also run firefox, spybot SD, AVG and have a hardware firewall so I don't really see myself in much danger...

I have 3 users, admin, power and restricted, with the restricted being the 'family' acc, the rest are for me.

Even with all the protection I have, I still prefer playing it safe.

I run as admin. All my important stuff is on my Linux partition anyway. If I screw up Windows, I can just format and re-install.

My account is in the Administrator group. Now, you're supposed to run as User or maybe Power User, but so many programs do stupid things like write to HKLM instead of HKCU or whatnot that its just not possible.

phongn wrote:My account is in the Administrator group. Now, you're supposed to run as User or maybe Power User, but so many programs do stupid things like write to HKLM instead of HKCU or whatnot that its just not possible.

I sometimes modify a program's registry key permissions with regedt32 to get around this, or temporarily grant admin priviledges to myself.

I run on Windows 98

If it messes up too badly, I'll just reformat and reinstall everything, wow 30 minutes lost at most. Fortunately it never messes up in a way that I can't fix with the registry in less then 5 minutes.

Power-user. I have a Windows XP box that's currently on the fritz now. It used up all it's expensive sparks and blue smoke, so now I have to buy more.

There's two other users, and we mostly use it for surfing, e-mailing and instant messaging, so it's not very often stuff has to be installed. Once I get it fixed, I might start restricting the user accounts.