Hi,
Running as an admin user... and people wonder why Windows boxes have security problems ;-) Not having a go at *you*, but at people in various departments I work with who insist they need to run as administrator.
je je, i know what you mean. Point is that my company gave the laptop ´as is´, with the user created, and a lotus notes profile for such user.
I know what you mean about lack of "su" - here's one way to get round it: I run XP as a Restricted user. In Start -> Run I have "runas /user:[administrative user name] cmd" I get a prompt for a password and then I have a command promt running as root^H^H^H^Hadministrator
I am using w2k... this is, i cannot use that revolutionary and cutting edge technology to switch user in the middle of a sesion :-( ;-)
If you need to use GUI tools you can drag and drop them into this command prompt. Doesn't work for all parts of the control panel but you can get what you need if you try long enough. If I was a Windows whizz it's be much faster.
I might upgrade to WXP, but not sure if it is worth of it. -- Saludos, miguel