Windows 10: View Poll Results: What kind of user account do you normally use?

A few threads recently have reminded me how it is safer to run as a standard user. For example:

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Even though I know this is sensible, I don't. For some reason (habit, convenience, I'm not sure) I generally run as a user that is part of the Administrators group. Perhaps I'll change that now...

Based on this discussion though it seemed it might be interesting to see what others do.

I suppose it really only applies to people running Windows at home where you have a choice but I put in a "Wasn't my decision" option as well in case you only use Windows at work.

As there is a limit in the number of responses for a poll, just the PC you normally use.

:)

 

Sign the petition?!

so karim, will we see Nokia act on the results or was the poll just posted for a bit of fun to gauge everyones view on this subject?

i mentioned earlier that Series 60 version 3, feature release 1 has the ability to have the F/W updated by the user so will we see this option included in future handsets? even if only a small number of people wanted to do this by themselves, it would still
save nokia time and money?

Hi Rich!

This poll isnt just a bit of fun, I was hoping to stimulate a bit of discussion on the subject. The results from the poll are interesting, it is not the landslide that many people who visit here were expecting. With on %59 of people actively seeking firmware
updates this still leaves a large group of owners who would require some assistance on updating their firmware, with two days to go the results could change either way. And again, this only gauges the opinion of people who visit these discussion boards - there
will be many many Nokia owners who have not read this post.

But, this poll isnt the official Nokia standpoint of firmware installation. The poll and this thread are what you, the users think and feel.

Carry on and make posts here to discuss this, and feel free to make a vote. The poll will close on Friday afternoon. I will collate the results and put them in this thread for further discussion.

Cheers

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Karim

 

Email has been syncing for 2 days now.

That does not sound normal. What kind of phone do you have? What kind of email account is it?

 

I use the one that gets installed during installation then I normally follow Brink's tutorial on adding a second administrator account. Because I also work from this computer I want to have as much security as I can.

 

I always did that too. The first account created is part of Admin group so is less secure.

I wondered how many people bothered to change it and run as a standard user.

Thus the poll *Smile

 

Local Account as Admin for a generic User folder and the ability to remove the User name.

 

Administrator with this:

 

Everyone else in my home uses a standard-level account for security, and it has helped too!

 

I'm lazy as well as not smart so Local Account as Admin *Sad