It wasn't the reinstall. I was able to print from the Administrator account after installation. No problem. But I could not print when switching to my Restricted account. Again, it would spool, but no print.
As for where to set security forget control panel, the XP Users thing is junk. Right click My Computer, Manage, then you’ll find the NT style User and Groups that actually gets the work done. Remember XP was before MS decided security was important for non-servers so they didn’t make it easy.
Been there, done that. It brings up a Computer Management screen. What's listed is: 1) System Tools: Event Viewer, Shared Folders, Performance Logs and Alerts, Device Manager; 2) Storage: Removable Storage, Disk Degragmenter, Disk Management; 3) Services and Applications: Services, WMI Control, Indexing Service System. Nowhere is there anything, even under these areas, that pertains to Users/Groups. Nothing.
It probably will work but there’s some goofy setting somewhere. Was the restricted account local to the laptop or part of the network?
Local to the laptop.
I’m not going to nail anybody for flying as admin, for one thing I’m lazy and do it too, it’s just good to remember that it’s not safe and when something bad happens you shouldn’t be surprised, and don’t come around b#$%^ing and moaning about crappy Windows security afterwards.
I understand. But keep in mind, your usual PC buyer will be totally clueless about security. Much more so than you or even I. I'm both hardware and software firewalled and running anti-virus software. I run Ad-Ware, and have Spybot running in the background. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've had few to no problems for quite some time.
I decided to look into changing accounts so I gave it a try. Well, I'm back to running as Administrator. There may be a threat, but it's a heck of a lot easier and hassle free from a user standpoint. And I can assure you, well over 95% of the PC public is likely doing the same.
You’ve got home edition. Forgot how different they are. That’s probably why you can’t hit the network printer properly. Home edition has tons of limitations on network access, especially on the restricted account.
I know the vast majority of Windows users are running in admin. That’s the problem. You can use all those defensive measures, and I run many myself, but in the end running as admin is like having sex with crack hos, you can limit your vulnerability with condoms and AV software, but you can’t yourself 100% safe. You and I are one exposure to a new virus that’s not in the database of our AV tools yet away from major trouble. Never forget the lessons of iloveyou, most successful virus in history, estimated at hitting 10% of the computers connected to the net at the time, every last infected computer was because somebody with admin privileges double clicked on the wrong exe. We the users are a significant part of the Windows security problem.