Can I use \"Add & Remove Programs, do virus scans, Disk Cleanup, Defrag, etc and have it effect all users?
I'm working on a machine that has 3 users and 2 of them are Administrators.
I'm trying not to have to Login to each user and duplicate what I just did with another user.
Clear programs, virus scans, etc with multiple users?
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Add & Remove Programs and Defrag effect all users regardless.
Most Virus scans should also, but administrator accounts can have private files and folders that can deny other users access, a good virus scanner uses the system account to scan the files and can access everything on the entire disk anyway. Disk Cleanup is mildly useless, but subject to the same limitations as virus scanners. There are better programs for cleaning up disks than Disk Cleanup (ccleaner is a good example of one).
Most Virus scans should also, but administrator accounts can have private files and folders that can deny other users access, a good virus scanner uses the system account to scan the files and can access everything on the entire disk anyway. Disk Cleanup is mildly useless, but subject to the same limitations as virus scanners. There are better programs for cleaning up disks than Disk Cleanup (ccleaner is a good example of one).
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It's possible to deny NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM access to objects.
CCleaner only affects the current user, but you can set it to scan through other user's folders. (which is something I do here at home).
I use
Ad-Aware,
Spybot S&D, and also
RegCleaner4.3 (wonderful little program)
Oh and AVG for anti-virus/firewall.
These are all free but can be upgraded if you so desire.
and of course Regular defraging goes a long ways. (at least once a week)
I use
Ad-Aware,
Spybot S&D, and also
RegCleaner4.3 (wonderful little program)
Oh and AVG for anti-virus/firewall.
These are all free but can be upgraded if you so desire.
and of course Regular defraging goes a long ways. (at least once a week)
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It's great at stopping a pesky executable deletion script at my high school from deleting things from my account that I want to keep.AceCombat wrote:but not recommended
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oh of course, but its not recommended for entry-level usersheftig wrote:It's great at stopping a pesky executable deletion script at my high school from deleting things from my account that I want to keep.AceCombat wrote:but not recommended