Re: Give Domain Users Local Admin Rights

From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 23:30:48 +0200

On Sat, 1 May 2004 00:34:44 +0100, Esta Vida Nueva <vamos@a.bailar>

>What I am interested to know, is why you allow your users to clutter their
>hard disk and degrade system performance by installing silly screen savers
>and other sundry software, especially without permission and supervision
>from an admin... particuarly when Windows includes perfectly adequate
>screen savers anyway.

Prolly a culture thing. Not every work environment treats users as
scum, and not all users resent their locked-down PCs to the point they
don't care if they let malware loose on them.

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