On May 25, 5:40*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
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Never, ever log in as ADMINISTRATOR when doing anything but administrative
tasks, and when logging in as ADMINISTRATOR (to install new software or
change settings or add normal users, like yourself), unplug the network
first.

Then log on as an ordinary user, with no privileges.
Rich-

I have a restricted user account to surf, an administrator account to
update or install programs, and another administrator account that
never goes online to manually explore and clean out the \Cookies,
\Temp, \Recent and \Temporary Internet Files folders of the other two.
In XP an administrator can't completely examine its own \Local
Settings.

You need to turn off Simpleminded File Sharing to fine-tune account
priviledges, and enable viewing Hidden and System files to clean out
the trash.

jsw