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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.

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).

ccleaner ftw

It's possible to deny NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM access to objects.

but not recommended

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)

AceCombat wrote:but not recommended

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.

heftig wrote:

AceCombat wrote:but not recommended

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.

oh of course, but its not recommended for entry-level users