Developing with a least privilege account

19th May 2005

I've taken the plunge, and removed my regular login account from the Administrators group.

I’ve taken the plunge, and removed my regular login account from the Administrators group. Not too many show stoppers so far - i did discover that my machine had a wrong group policy being applied, but that is fixed now. I’ve set up a Command Prompt shortcut that will run as my separate admin account. This article on running control panel applets is also useful: Run Control Panel Applets as Another User: “How can I run Control Panel applets as another user”