tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post1469331701290231814..comments2024-03-24T15:27:49.804-04:00Comments on CANNONFIRE: Another Windows 7 updateJoseph Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10574779960109698980noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-27821573799965042692009-06-06T20:50:29.050-04:002009-06-06T20:50:29.050-04:00I'm sure there's a very good reason you ha...I'm sure there's a very good reason you haven't considered OS X... <br /><br />I mean, the whole admin thing. OS has a real shell, and whenever you need to do something administrative, you just become the admin momentarily with the sudo command...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-34063808837652793902009-06-06T14:54:18.957-04:002009-06-06T14:54:18.957-04:00About that admin hassle. Have a look here.
http:/...About that admin hassle. Have a look here.<br /><br />http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html?filterGary McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03329080938000561329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-27206514967289829552009-06-06T11:51:47.092-04:002009-06-06T11:51:47.092-04:00It's not so much that Win7 thinks the user is ...It's not so much that Win7 thinks the user is an idiot, it's that the 'user' could be a virus or other malware. I'm sure you're familiar with the lessons learned about allowing email attachments to execute with administrator privileges. Allowing users to log in and run everything with full administrator privileges has proven not to be the safest way to operate a networked computer, so there *shouldn't* be an easy way to do it. Sorry, but the 'admin rights' issue is here to stay unless we go back to ROM-based operating systems like the Commodore 64 had, or we move to something like the iPhone, where the OS provider decides what and how software can be installed in your hardware and there are no admin rights available to the user.<br /><br />That said, it does sound from your description that work needs to be done to allow for more convenient administration before the final release. Sudo (used in most Unix and Unix-like OS's) is a good example of convenient authenticated temporary privilege escalation for administrative tasks.<br /><br />NTLDR (NT Loader) is boot code. As I'm sure you've seen, the OS won't boot without it. It is called from the MBR (master boot record - the first block on a hard drive). My guess is your MBR got corrupted since restoring a known-good image didn't fix it (the MBR is not usually part of the 'C:' partition that gets imaged, but NTLDR is). Here is a link which <a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/12/ntldr-is-missing-press-any-key-to-restart/" rel="nofollow">describes NTLDR issues fairly well.</a> Should you encounter that trouble again, you may be able to fix it without complete re-install or even partition restore.<br /><br />And yes, don't install a beta OS on a computer you plan to rely on. With Microsoft, that usually means wait until Service Pack 2 (or as you suggest, at least SP1). Some of the problems you describe (restoring an image to all attached hd's by default makes no sense whatsoever) arguably shouldn't have made it to a public beta release.<br /><br /><i>Did Barack Obama announce that, yes, there will be martial law, but it will be a kinder and more humane form of martial law than George Bush would have imposed?</i><br /><br />LOL!!! You had me rolling with that one -- so true!Stan D. Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16990405127603466104noreply@blogger.com