Moronic Windows behavior
Posted on February 10, 2005 @ 14:29 in Software
I just bumped into another display of moronic Windows behavior. I'm setting up my mom's new computer with Windows XP Home. I have installed the McAfee viruskiller, ZoneAlarm and set up Windows and McAfee to download and install updates automatically. I also created a password protected Administrator account and set up a User account for my mom to use.
However, it turns out that Windows Update and McAfee's automatic update will only run when you're logged in as Administrator! That's nuts.
I can't let my mom's computer go without automatic updates and it's way too much hassle to have her (remember to) log out as her User account, log in as the Admin to run the updates, log Admin back out again, log User back in again, every time Windows or McAfee says there's an update available. Well, looks like Windows can't offer my mom the added safety of running as User account, so I ended up setting her account to Administrator level. Sigh.
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