All You Win XP Stragglers

Wayne Dohnal wrote:

I gave up on virus checkers running all the time, using half the processor speed and never finding any viruses. I do run a firewall, use mostly sites I know, and scan with Malwarebytes every month or if anything seems odd. I have very complete backups including the old computers still in full working order. And I have a spare computer or two in case any parts fail. No worries.

Wow, now there's 2 of us doing the same thing. After getting a few viruses while running the anti-virus software, I figured all it was doing was causing a lot of problems and not helping. What I've found helps the most is not running in administrator mode. Since I switched to non-admin mode and dumped the anti-virus software, zero viruses. I have a win7 machine, and an XP machine, and consider win7 to be a downgrade. The win7 UI is worse, and for me it's not any faster.

A whole thread on this...I could ask questions forever -- I am clueless on this. I will only ask 2:

Is (Admin-Nonadmin) applicable to XP Pro only?

How often do you need to come back as Admin for ordinary stuff, like Disk Cleanup?