[ale] [OT] Odd XP Behavior

[James P. Kinney III]

As much as I dislike using M$ stuff, economics dictates that learning
how to support it is a necessary evil. 

>From what you just experienced, it sounds like XP still has a long way

to go before it reaches the complete separation of user space and system
space.

Just out of curiosity, what are the privilege levels for both accounts?
If they are both "admin" level, I can see a road to serious problems
ahead for XP. 

Try a new account with basically "guest" rights and test it with a
different default browser choice.

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:42, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> My intention is simply to share an odd experience with WinXP (which I
> know most of you don't really like), but which I have to support.
> <put on flame suit>
> I'm running XP Pro at home to learn how to support it.  I setup my
> account the way I like it (Mozilla, eudora, the gimp, cygwin,
> OpenOffice, etc) with all my applications being the default.  No
> problem, everything worked fine.  I setup my wife's account, and when
> she logged on, IE prompted her if it should be the default browser, and
> of course she clicked "OK".  Now IE is MY default browser, and will NOT
> let me change it back to Mozilla!  Stupid M$ crap.
> </remove flame suit>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
> 
> 
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