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> Windows XP is very very stupid.
> The windows login screen is misleading.
> There is an administrative acconut with a blank password
>>Only if the user is very very stupid by leaving the password blank
>>instead of specifying one during the install or afterward by changing
>>it. It may be blank. It may not. If it is blank, the user is one that
>>is very very stupid. If they leave it blank, they might as well as get
>>TweakUI for Windows XP and use the option to always login in
>>automatically as the Administrator since anyone else accessing that
>>computer could login under the Administrator account.
The question of what level of security. Or a question of how much you
lock yourself out or inconvenience yourself.
In this case, I changed my mind and agree with you though - regarding
not having a blank administrator password. But in this case since the
system is used by a family and you already have each member with
his/her password, and you want the administrative accoutn in order to
limit everybody else so they can't mess up the computer.
However. If he's going to have a password on the default administrator.
account, then he needs to take the precautions to deal with getting
around that level of security. He needs something like Petter
Nordahl's offline NT password recovery program. Just incase he even
locked himself out of his default administrative accoutn by forgetting
the password for that.
Regarding loggin in as administrator automatically with TweakXP. You
can log in automatically as anybody, using built in win xp features.
start run control userpasswords2 then uncheck "users must enter
a username or password to use.." Then click apply, and it asks for teh
username and password which it will enter automatically for you every
time you go in.
> and it has its
> own picture to click on to log in. But when you create your own
> administrative user account, that default administrative account
> with
> the blank password is hidden. Rather, the picture for it is hidden.
>>Ah, the joys of using the dumb-down Fisher Price user interface rather
>>than reverting to the classic interface which didn't lead you astray.
Fisher Price has a huge advantage. You don't need to remember your
username. and if you don't have a password, then you don't need to
remember anything.
Regarding VPC,VMWARE,InstallWatch,Images
note: Ghost images - norton ghost, is the standard prog now
Great ideas.
I tried VPC and VMWARE. I found that VMWARE has better NWing support.
VPC has a nicer GUI since there's little or no NWing things to
configure. Both were smooth and stable with 1 virtual machine ! Great
for testing software that's crashing(it rules out a hell of a lot). Or
testing new software. I had some crashes with more than 1 VM. VMWARE
seemed more stable with >1 VM , than VPC though. VPC had this weird
keyboard crash(not a focus issue).
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