Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article <00nli.108297$1i1.40973@pd7urf3no>, The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:Anecdotally, I've had Microsoft Word (Office) crash and corrupt all the hard drives in a system (twice - losing a months worth of work in the process).Well, I suppose you got what you deserved, because when this happened, you had committed two cardinal "sins": 1. When that MS-Word crashed and did all that damage to your stuff, you were logged on to an account with administrator's right. If you instead had been logged on to an account with more limited user's access rights, that could never have happened. Only the folders to which you had write privileges could have been damaged by that fialing MS-Word, but never the entire hard disks.
This was back in 2000. No administrator accounts.
2. You didn't back up your stuff properly - so you lost a months (sic!) worth of work instead of merely a few hours worth of work.
It WAS backed up. To the second hard drive in the same system.
I hope you leant from your mistakes so this won't happen to you again.
Darned right!
Hardware and software can always fail - so back up your stuff if youdon't want to lose it!
I now have multiple systems AND a reasonable backup path (DVDs) which I didn't have back then.
And just like Linux user's aren't logged on as 'root' all the time, and Mac OS-X users usually are logged on to accounts with limited access rights, so should Windows users avoid logging on to an account with administrative rights for their dailywork.
Correct. I moved 95% to Linux (everything except the games). I don't use the root account unless it is absolutely necessary. Within the last couple of years I've been playing around with OS X (monoculture with hardware is not a good thing).
The 'Administrator' account should be used only sometimes, when you really have to, and never when reading your mail ur surfing the web - or when running applications like MS-Word, which can crash really badly....
You're preaching to the choir son. Back then I was running what was available. The boss says run Windows... I run Windows. The boss says run Office (Word)... I run Office. The boss asks me to produce work... I run Linux.
Later Mike