Aaron Margosis' Non-Admin, App-Compat and Sysinternals WebLog
The Non-Admin blog - running with least privilege on the desktop... and then dealing with the application compatibility fallout... and using Sysinternals and other utilities to figure things out
Remembering Calculator and Character Map Settings
Here’s an odd little one you might not have noticed. The Windows Calculator applet remembers whether...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 02/09/2005
Running restricted -- What does the "protect my computer" option mean?
If you’ve been reading my “non-admin” posts, by now I assume you have seen the Windows XP “Run As”...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 09/10/2004
PrivBar -- An IE/Explorer toolbar to show current privilege level
[Aug 15 2008: Click here for updated links and instructions.] [Updated again: Click here.]...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 07/24/2004
MakeMeAdmin -- temporary admin for your Limited User account
[added March 11, 2005: Important follow-up here:...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 07/24/2004
RunAs with Explorer
This is the latest post in my series about how to run with limited user privileges on Windows XP and...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 07/07/2004
"Zero-day" attacks and using limited privilege
There have been a couple of credible sounding stories in the press in the past week or two about...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 06/25/2004
"RunAs" basic (and intermediate) topics
In this posting: What is RunAs? How to use RunAs from the GUI (even if you can’t see it) Using...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 06/23/2004
Not running as admin...
The security principle of “least privilege” is well understood: Software should run with...
Author: Aaron Margosis Date: 06/17/2004