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Well, perhaps it would be good to give her a non-admin account to Windows? The same approach you'd do with a Mac, but leaving her with a familiar UI.
by ptaipale 12y ago
Well, perhaps it would be good to give her a non-admin account to Windows? The same approach you'd do with a Mac, but leaving her with a familiar UI.
- busterarm 12y agoPrivilege escalation, even with UAC at its strictest, is trivial on Windows with the malware that's floating around these days. I worked full time for 5 of the last 6 years on Windows malware research. Windows is a swiss-cheese joke of an operating system that won't progress because of a(n at this point pathological) need for 20 years of backwards compatibility. Microsoft: make use of that XP mode VM and extend that trend forwards, you fools.
- ptaipale 12y agoPerhaps so, but at least it would keep some of the malware out. Another option would be to put her regular use to a VM that you control (remotely) and can restore to a clean state at any time...
- mod 12y agoI'd like to see some kind of way to lock the system for older folks. I'm tired of troubleshooting my dad's computer. He doesn't even do so much as adding bookmarks, his machine exclusively browses the web. I'd like to get everything he needs installed and lock out modifications. Needs cookies obviously, but not much else. Somehow he manages to have video player issues in every single browser that I can't figure out. He has to watch youtube in chrome, live streams in firefox, etc. It's really dumb. Buying him a chromecast improved it some, though, by avoiding it.
- ptaipale 12y agoSuch limitations are of course possible. Perhaps you should look up what you can achieve by running secpol.msc. (Myself, I find that model complex and unintuitive, being used to the Unix way, but everything has its learning curve.)