psloss
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2 edits | reply to BruceT
Re: XP: Your Very own Low-Rights IE
said by BruceT  :Now from reading this, XP Home makes it difficult to use the system running it as a non-admin. Is that correct and if so what should the "average joe" home user do? XP all by itself works pretty well running as non-admin, but a lot of software (a majority of software overall, I believe) was written for Windows 9x, where there is no distinction between admin and non-admin (everything is admin in 9x). Microsoft has several products (or has acquired several products) that are incompatible with running as non-admin, but compared to the industry that revolves around it, they're not that bad.
XP was the last attempt to force 9x users to upgrade to Windows NT. What has happened (unsurprisingly) is that we (collectively) are running NT 5.1 in Windows 9x compatibility mode, because then "everything works."
So I guess I would say that Windows makes it difficult to use a Windows system running it as a non-admin. In my opinion, it's not just XP, but how Windows got to the XP version.
From what I've read, Microsoft is attempting to directly addressing this issue of Win9x apps on NT in "Vista," because they aren't going away.
Philip Sloss
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