OK, mrsw upgraded from Windows 8 to 10. Arggggh!

[TLS Guy]

One very important tip, that is supported by many experts... and also security standards like ISO 27001. It goes with any operating system

Take away administrator rights for the everyday user that you're using
It gives you some hazzles but you're much more secure

Yes, my son has taken mine away!

 

[haraldo]

Yes, my son has taken mine away!

Somehow it doesn't sound so convincing... (if your son is admin, I mean)

 

[TLS Guy]

Somehow it doesn't sound so convincing... (if your son is admin, I mean)

My son is admin after the last migration. I have everything I need. So he can check out any other program I might need remotely. We will give it a try. So far it has been no problem, but we have only been on this regime a couple of weeks or so.

 

[haraldo]

My son is admin after the last migration. I have everything I need. So he can check out any other program I might need remotely. We will give it a try. So far it has been no problem, but we have only been on this regime a couple of weeks or so.

Sounds good...

I took also away admin rights for my everyday user (which is the company AD domain user), but I do have a local personal admin account, works fine... no probs with anything.

This problem is specificially present for Windows, that is just plainly architected wrong, at least it was... Maybe they improved with edge, but I did not check this.

At least it's what I know from previous versions of windows is that Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer runs in kernel mode and if you're admin in addition... any bug, any loophole, any vulnerability may potentially go straight into the os core... I really don't understand why any of the GUI stuff must run in Kernel mode...?

The effect of this is that any bug in the GUI may have the potential to crash your computer... It ain't so in Linux where it runs in user mode, meaning that bugs or vulnerabilities cannot bring your computer down, and it's much less susceptible to messing up your computer... Apple OS-X is built on unix and I think it's somehow similar model, but I can't say as I never checked...

 

[GO-NAD!]

Hey, if it's not broke.....
My everyday driver still runs XP... for work Win 7.
Many enterprise users and government is still run XP; Microsoft still supplies them updates and support.
The thing is, if it works for your needs, that's what counts.

One point that gets lost with 'Upgraditis', the belief that upgrading gear, hardware, software and anything else will bring better results, enhance creativity, yield more success and money, and will lead to experiencing happiness.
Normally, none of those results are achieved.

I haven't had a virus in over ten years on the XP machine. A few years ago I thought I got one and it turned out to be a drive failure. I replaced it with an SSD and XP boots in about 20 seconds.
It's a Dell XPS and it won't die.

Yeah, for our purposes, 7 works perfectly well. As long as Microsoft supports it, I imagine we'll stick with it - unless some compelling reason for upgrading arises.

 

[herbu]

So I'm waiting to install Windows 10, reluctantly. Ultimately I will, but I dread the unanticipated land mines ahead.

When you do, watch the first boot carefully. It will give you a string of screens, each touting a list of "improved" function. If you click, "NEXT", it automatically turns on each of those functions.

But at the bottom of each screen is a small print option to Customize. Click that, instead of NEXT, and it lets you select which of the options you want to use. You'll see a lot of them send info to MS or other people. I turned OFF most of them, and have had few issues w/ 10.