Re: Administrator Accounts

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:02:57 CST, Matthew Murphy said:

> Some of these apps needlessly require admin rights (or more limited
> privileges that pose an equivalent danger).  This is one of the things
> Vista will alleviate with Application Impact Management (AIM) is the
> scenario whereby a non-admin user whose software attempts to write to
> protected directories/registry hives will have their own copy of that
> data (instead of being denied access/altering the global copy) from that
> point forward.

Yee. Hah. Polyinstantiated files.

This is going to make the help desk shit a brick until they get up to speed
on the concept.  The user looks at the file, it's borked, the admin looks
and it's Just Fine. ;)

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