What have I wrought?
Dell--I think you misread Philip's last post. He was saying that the question is
not one of personal taste.
I appreciate both of your viewpoints. It's interesting that two such deeply knowledgeable guys could disagree so fundamentally on this.
If I were to continue playing it safe (aka "overkill" in Dell's estimation), I wonder if there are any ways to enhance my user experience. I.e., reduce the number of passwords and PINs that I'm asked for.
Philip--an earlier reply from you seemed to imply that it shouldn't be that often that I'm asked for that stuff. I can only say that I have a few programs set to run as admin in order to function at the full potential. Among them are SAWStudio, Everything (the search utility), Macrium Reflect. I do a lot of restarting of SAW, so the admin credentials thing is more frequent for me than you may be thinking. But there are also file management tasks that require it. Or system stuff like Device Manager, the registry, or Services that need admin access in order to actually make changes. Anyway, the bottom line for me is that it is indeed often enough to be a pain.
JMH--It's my one main computer, so keeping it offline isn't an option. FWIW, I'm on LTSC, so updates/patches aren't a thing.
It's interesting, though that no one's commiserating with me on this. Again, I have to wonder if I'm doing something "wrong" that's making it more of a pain than it needs to be. Or if I'm overlooking some tweak that will assuage my irritation.
One more thought: with anti-virus and anti-malware, fire wall, etc., why is this even a concern?
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