Safe Web Browsing and E-mail for the Administrator

re: Safe Web Browsing and E-mail for the Administrator

Bernie V — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:55:00 GMT

This is a neat trick. However, for me, Outlook Express will not run when I drop its rights down to Normal User. I just get a splash screen and that's it. How would you go about determining the right that it needs in order to be able to run?

re: Safe Web Browsing and E-mail for the Administrator

Peter da Silva — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:59:00 GMT

The secure way to read mail on Windows is to simply not use Outlook. Windows is a perfectly nice desktop OS once you make the decision that you're going to avoid any apps other than the desktop itself that use the HTML control.

re: Safe Web Browsing and E-mail for the Administrator

Jenni Merrifield (strawberryJAMM) — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:30:00 GMT

Bernie:

I took a moment to contact Michael Howard with your question"

<quote who="Michael Howard">
Hello Jenni

I just tried this on WinXP and Win2k3, and it works fine. Which OS are they using?

We’ve seen some random failures but they’ve all been some funky screw-up in their system. We even had a failure to load notepad!!!! I kid you not!!! But it was isolated to one machine
</quote>

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