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HOW CAN WE PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED OR ANONYMOUS DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLATIONS ON OUR PC. WILL LOCKING THE REGISTRY SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
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HOW CAN WE PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED OR ANONYMOUS DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLATIONS ON OUR PC. WILL LOCKING THE REGISTRY SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
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The entire idea of the Personal Computer was that if I was the user I could do what I want. Later folk wanted some control
This is why Windows began to offer that "Limited User" account. Did you try that?
Bob
Giving all accounts a password is a nice way to limit access to those persons you told a password.
Enabling the guest account for everybody except a few trusted users (you make them ordinary user) and a few VERY trusted users (you make them administrator) is a rather good prevention also.
Kees