Slashdot | Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security

Slashdot | Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security:

"Running windows without admin rights is a nightmare."

It certainly isn't easy, unless you're willing to invest significant technical time and effort into the project -- which is, I'm sure, a big part of the reason why most people don't do it.

That being said, I'm the admin for an organization with about 60 or so Windoze stations, and I can say that it can be done for most things. It most often involves figuring out what the defective program is trying to do, and then allowing it access to just where it needs.

The two most vital tools are FileMon and RegMon, both free from SysInternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/ [sysinternals.com]). They monitor file system or registry accesses. In the vast majority of programs can be made to work just by applying some ACLs on program-specific registry or filesystem branches.

There's no way in hell your 'typical home user' could do this, though, which is, I expect, the problem and point.