Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 15:46 UTC, submitted by Gabor
"Using a Limited account during your everyday work gives better protection against malicious software infection and accidental misconfiguration. But installing software or changing some system settings can be difficult in a low privileged environment. The sudoWn project can execute individual programs (or even a whole Windows shell) with temporary Administrator privileges under your user profile. This means you can use a low privileged environment and elevate your rights transitionally for software installation or systemwide configuration comfortably."
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2005-08-11
Nice language....and while I agree that cmd is not as versatile as bash, you have most of the other facts wrong. You can start a new admin explorer window without killing the current one, just by right clicking the explorer shortcut and choosing runas, or by using runas explorer.exe from the cmd prompt. I also run as a normal user under XP, and with the combination of runas and the normal cmd prompt, you can do anything you need, as most admin tasks under windows can be done using the gui, without the vulgarity Most Windows users don't need bash, or cygwin for that matter.