We have private browsing but what about private working?

tronator

RussJK wrote: »

Even if you set the user folders to be inaccessible to other users? Last time I used basic folder permissions on an XP box, this prevented other users (even with admin access) from doing this.

If you are admin then you are admin. If the user removes the admin from the access list, then the admin can just take ownership of that folder and change access rights.

tronator

RussJK wrote: »

I already addressed that possibility in the post you are replying to. I'm not sure what point you are trying to get at really, since you seem to be agreeing with me in an argumentative way?

I'm not arguing with you. As you used words like "presumably" I wasn't sure whether you know how to do it. Sorry if it came across in the wrong way...

Back to the OP's question, in a corporate environment, no user other then the IT admin should have the Administrator password and should only work with restricted user accounts. If a program requires administrative rights to run then it is broken by design.

Every version of Windows after Windows 98 is a proper (ok, more or less ) multi-user OS and everybody working with their own user account. If you have some frequently changing employees in your company then you might to want to set up one account called "temp" or so for them. I don't wanna know how many viruses and other malware is already on this computer if everybody can install software as they like...

Aiadi

BandJB wrote: »

I'd be a bit careful about saving all your work to a Flash drive. They can fail at any time and/or easily suffer physical damage which makes them unreadable. (My Springer Spaniel chewed up my weekly backup Flash drive, for instance!) Maybe you could have two and alternate them 'daily', copying the contents of 'Yesterdays' drive to the hard drive at the start of the day; working on them; then moving the contents to the alternate Flash drive at the end of the day. Should only take a few seconds each way and a hell of a site better than losing all your work.

In my experience, Murphy's Law and Sod's Law always operate as a pair.

USB drives should be used in exactly the same way you use other storage media. All your data should be regularly backed up and as they are portable, they should also be encrypted for important data. I have around 200 applications running from USB Drive (16GB) using a portable launch menu (I use PStart) - including the portable open office - All the files and applications are encrypted with either TrueCrypt or FreeOTFE and this helps me carry all my applications and documents wherever I go for work.