It was a clever method to trick WinXP into running Firefox with lower
than administrator rights. The idea being that would lower the risk of
having malware installed.

Alas, it worked too well. You couldn't even update Firefox with it
running in restricted mode. I worked around that myself for a while,
but I found my less savvy users really couldn't grasp the concept. So
I've stopped using it even on older machines.

And of course, Vista & Win7 offer more protection by default anyway.
Although both will set up users as admins by default, I can lower
someone to a standard user and they can operate the machine just fine
and never even notice it. And yes, I do that for myself also.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Richard P. <richs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony, awhile back I think you mentioned a program called "Drop My
> Rights". How has that worked for you and will you provide details?


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