>>>That's one of the worst thing you can do, to set yourself up as the administrator on your PC. If you get a virus, the virus will have the same rights as the current user, you, the administrator.
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>>Well, I cannot do much on that PC if I am not working with it as an administrator. What do you suggest?
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>Follow the rules, one of which is to avoid writing to the root of your C:.

When did that become a 'rule'? And before you go off on me about 'standard practices' ... yeah, those aren't rules - they're guidelines.

Look... around here, most of us know what and what not to do on our machines and I'm sure there are many out there that, like me, get REAL dang tired of MS trying to hold our hands and force us into behaviors that actually make us more dangerous on our machines than we should be.

It's kinda like the draconian security weenies out there who insist on passwords being (as was the case one place I worked) exactly 14 characters long, with at least 1 capitol letter, 1 number and 1 extended character and these MUST be changed every 30 days. Congratulations, you've just moved most of your workforce into doing the very things you don't want them to do.