Tuulilapsi
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Re: Automatic Updates as a Limited User
Well, actually, that's not correct. You can edit file permissions in XP Home, with the Explorer GUI, but you can only do so in Safe Mode. Which is, of course, retarded, but better than using the command line tool, in my opinion, since it's notorious for mucking up permissions.
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1 edit | I forgot about Safe Mode.
That is still horrible, why would anyone reboot into Safe Mode just to click on one checkbox? The command I use hasn't mucked mine up and has always given me desired results. That is what "/e /t /p" is for.
cacls "C:\Program Files\mIRC" /e /t /p Users:F |
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Tuulilapsi
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| Indeed, it is horrible, and kind of makes you wonder why MS even bothered to give us limited user accounts in XP Home, when they seem to have made every effort to make them as difficult as possible to operate.
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| said by Tuulilapsi  :kind of makes you wonder why MS even bothered to give us limited user accounts in XP Home, when they seem to have made every effort to make them as difficult as possible to operate. first off, fabulous article in the original post; thanx.
second, xp home is a blight and a stupid concept, imho. ms should have made all xp's pro and strongly encouraged (and documented the instructions for) running as user for everyday tasks. xp home is NOT easier or more user friendly---users not needing the advanced features of xp pro can just not use them in most cases.
that said, since many of the noobs i support are indeed using xp home, every tip on making it more usable is so welcome! i'll never forget my first "friend's new computer with xp home" setup as i tried desperately to figure out how to get into the built-in admin account to rename and put a password on it (dell ships 'em with a blank password); the old CAD twice definitely doesn't work in xp home.
a quick edit of policies to use the classic login and require CAD to login makes short work of that stupid welcome screen  .
i hope longhorn will incorporate the best of xp pro and lose the stupid xp home restrictions, making them optional for those wanted a leaner and less-featured setup.
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@iit.edu | Actually, what you don't want to do is install XP Pro over XP Home...be prepared for random crap to happen. Things run slower, hardware gets all jacked up, etc. |
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