The Lillster Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Hello, Recently Microsoft released a software tool to help admins protect public computers from virus's and malware, by offering a software package that could do a numeber of different things like, restrict users, stop permmanent changes being made to the dask disk etc... Anyway, I have turned on windows disk protection, and basicly what that does is clear any changes you've made to the hardisk, once you restart the computer. However, I want to to save certain things, like desktop icons, downloaded music, etc... Is there a way to configure what it protects and what it doesn't protect? Thanks.
Guest Jordan Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Hmmm... you shouldn't have turned that on in the first place. Its not meant for desktops more work stations and servers. I'd suggest turning it off. Your other option is to either: Buy another HDD for backing up all these downloaded data etc or make a partition on your current HDD.
Bogbas Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 And the one thing that makes any windows machine safer is to create a new user account. The account shouldn't have administrative rights, and can only write in certain folders. And when you're using the pc to surf the web, playing etc. You use the user account. You can save the desktop icons and such on that account, but you can't install new software while using it. There is a problem with punkbuster with that though. You might get "insufficient o/s privileges" error with games.
The Lillster Posted July 8, 2006 Author Posted July 8, 2006 Hmmm... you shouldn't have turned that on in the first place. Its not meant for desktops more work stations and servers. I'd suggest turning it off. Your other option is to either: Buy another HDD for backing up all these downloaded data etc or make a partition on your current HDD. I know that, I was only intending to protect the OS files themselves, so that I wouldn't need to run a anti-virus in the background. I also had the idea of partitioning my harddrive, but it would be a lot more simple if I could configure it, to only protect the OS files, i.e C:\Windows
Guest Jordan Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 As far as i know, you can't do that. Er... whats wrong with having an anti virus anyway? AVG Free never went wrong for me.
The Lillster Posted July 8, 2006 Author Posted July 8, 2006 As far as i know, you can't do that. Er... whats wrong with having an anti virus anyway? AVG Free never went wrong for me. Well, an anti virus takes up processing power, the Windows Disk Protection doesn't. Also you need to keep updating the anti-virus. It's not that important. I just wanted to try a different method of protecting my pc from spyware and virus's.
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