A regular user can still do damage in an XP system, simply by installing piles of garbage that fattens up the registry until it teeters and totters of its own bloated weight or deleting whatever files they have write-access to (if XP is like 2k, then not everything is locked down tight). If you want true segregation, go with two OS's.darthdavid wrote:Go biometric. Admin your account and limit her account while using a thumb scanner so noone can use the admin account. If that dosen't stop her than, nothing will. Also xp is crap. One admin can delete another admins password
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Easy to say, mind blowing to think it out.Darth Wong wrote:That's easy. Partition half your HD for FAT32 and Win98. Then, install software like Partition Magic to make a second PRIMARY partition in the remaining half of the drive. Use FDISK or some other utility to make the second partition active: this will make it think that it's C: and the first partition is D:.
Now, install Win XP Pro on C:. You can switch between the two partitions by simply changing the active partition (can be done with a simple batch file if you have Partition Magic's command-line utility or handled with a boot-sector menu by XOSL). Each OS will think it's on C:. XP Pro will be able to see the Win98 partition as D: but Win98 won't be able to see XP Pro because Win98 can't see NTFS, so you'll be secured.
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LOL man, i blew up my parents' comp installing DX 8.0....don't go so hard on him...
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Yeah, that's a good point. Technically it's possible for anyone to take a seemingly innocuous action and kill a Windows computer because of the nature of Windows. Whenever you install anything on a Windows box, you're running the risk of serious unforeseen problems.Vorlon1701 wrote:LOL man, i blew up my parents' comp installing DX 8.0....don't go so hard on him...
All the more reason to have separate OS's.
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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Ok, lets use a linux boot disk with NTFS support or the other various boot disks for accessing NTFS.Ted wrote:Easy to say, mind blowing to think it out.Darth Wong wrote:That's easy. Partition half your HD for FAT32 and Win98. Then, install software like Partition Magic to make a second PRIMARY partition in the remaining half of the drive. Use FDISK or some other utility to make the second partition active: this will make it think that it's C: and the first partition is D:.
Now, install Win XP Pro on C:. You can switch between the two partitions by simply changing the active partition (can be done with a simple batch file if you have Partition Magic's command-line utility or handled with a boot-sector menu by XOSL). Each OS will think it's on C:. XP Pro will be able to see the Win98 partition as D: but Win98 won't be able to see XP Pro because Win98 can't see NTFS, so you'll be secured.
You need to also disable boot from floppy too and lock the bios with a password. Also hope your bios does not have a generic password.
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Comp working.
Installed NVIDIA W2K drivers, installed DX 8.1 from the Hearts of Iron CD (the WinNT version), installed Tiny Personal Firewall..now I just
need a free antivirus program..
SUGGESTIONS, NOW!
need a free antivirus program..
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AVG Antivirus. Go to http://www.grisoft.com for more information. Automated updates and everything. I use it on all my machines, without a hitch. And yes, it's free. The serial number they send you via E-mail is the same for everyone; they just want an excuse to ask for your E-mail 
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
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Shep, I feel your pain: the very first night our family got our first computer, my younger brother ran FDISK "to find out what it did." My very first experience with DOS 5.0 was trying to figure out what he'd done so I could fix it, with my dad standing over my shoulder yelling "is it working yet?" Ironically enough, my brother went on to become a computer science major. Me, I learned never to "upgrade" a damn thing unless I absolutely have to in order to play a new game.
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My little sister, my aunt's two kids, & my first brother in law are/were hackers. I am the ex-hacker turned IT, for a while. Part of my stress factor, was the "Free" work I kept having to do close to home....
Have you ever tried to secure a computer from someone whose almost as good as you are, while still making it accessable to the computer illiterates?
Have you ever tried to secure a computer from someone whose almost as good as you are, while still making it accessable to the computer illiterates?
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Damn I was just about to say that. I think I'm the one who originally told you about that too btw...Darth Wong wrote:AVG Antivirus. Go to http://www.grisoft.com for more information. Automated updates and everything. I use it on all my machines, without a hitch. And yes, it's free. The serial number they send you via E-mail is the same for everyone; they just want an excuse to ask for your E-mail
EDIT: God damn fucking typo. Typos need to burn in Hell!
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LOL!! Way to go...The Yosemite Bear wrote:My little sister, my aunt's two kids, & my first brother in law are/were hackers. I am the ex-hacker turned IT, for a while. Part of my stress factor, was the "Free" work I kept having to do close to home....
Have you ever tried to secure a computer from someone whose almost as good as you are, while still making it accessable to the computer illiterates?
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Oh yeah, I recall that too. Thanks!Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Damn I was just about to say that. I think I'm the one who originally told you about that too btw...Darth Wong wrote:AVG Antivirus. Go to http://www.grisoft.com for more information. Automated updates and everything. I use it on all my machines, without a hitch. And yes, it's free. The serial number they send you via E-mail is the same for everyone; they just want an excuse to ask for your E-mail
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html