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I am relatively new to XP and still confused about user accounts and their
implications. My computer runs Windows XP Home and is set up with four user
accounts, all administrator as all four users need to install software.
Zonealarm and AVG run when any user is logged on, and (as far as I can tell)
don't have any user-specific settings. For example, in Zonealarm, whoever is
logged on sees the same list of programs with the same permissions to access
the trusted zone/internet. So any new entries resulting from any user's
activities are visible in the list when another user logs on.
However, other programs (such as Office) have user-specific settings (which
is all part of the purpose of separate user accounts). Is there a clear
distinction between these two types? How do I know if a particular program
is of one type or the other? Or is it a matter of how they are installed or
configured? As an example, are security/privacy settings in Internet
Explorer global or user-specific? And when I use Adaware and Spybot, do I
need to run them when logged on as each user in turn, or just once for the
whole computer?
I am relatively new to XP and still confused about user accounts and their
implications. My computer runs Windows XP Home and is set up with four user
accounts, all administrator as all four users need to install software.
Zonealarm and AVG run when any user is logged on, and (as far as I can tell)
don't have any user-specific settings. For example, in Zonealarm, whoever is
logged on sees the same list of programs with the same permissions to access
the trusted zone/internet. So any new entries resulting from any user's
activities are visible in the list when another user logs on.
However, other programs (such as Office) have user-specific settings (which
is all part of the purpose of separate user accounts). Is there a clear
distinction between these two types? How do I know if a particular program
is of one type or the other? Or is it a matter of how they are installed or
configured? As an example, are security/privacy settings in Internet
Explorer global or user-specific? And when I use Adaware and Spybot, do I
need to run them when logged on as each user in turn, or just once for the
whole computer?