Belatucadrus Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Recently read an article on things to do to optimize security on an XP comp now MS have ended support, one suggestion was to disable Internet Explorer as it's a primary interface to the creeps on the web and future holes will remain unplugged. Well as I'm a 360 browser convert and went well and truly off IE8 a long time ago this was quickly done. But brings up another thought IE 8 and its updates are taking quite a lot of space on a smallish hard drive, safe to delete or could this open security flaws and exploits even if its disabled ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 PS people suggesting I try Linux will be ignored, I have a Linux mint distro on the netbook and may at some point put one on the laptop but at this point it's not the answer to my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 I suggest that you use the remove 'Hotfix uninstallers' in CCleaner. To remove everything manually will confuse Windows Update; although there are no more updates forthcoming, WU is still active (unless it is disabled). I think I will disable WU for all XP systems that are still around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Decided to bite the bullit and uninstalled IE8, resulted in a few new windows updates to IE6, on the plus side I've cleared the better part of a Gig of space for patches to a browser I haven't used for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachindiscovery Posted April 26, 2014 Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 Download Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP from Official Microsoft Download Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 IE8 Has been uninstalled, IE6 patched and as far as possible deactivated. IMHO XP users need to be using an up to date browser and should seriously consider operating a sandbox, using an obsolete unsupported browser has become a real liability with the loss of MS support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Don't use Internet Explorer, warns US government Combine this warning with the point that XP isn't going to plug the hole at all and it seems pretty imperative that XP users should move as far away from IE as feasibly possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adson3492 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 I am using Windows 8.1 on a laptop. I initially created an administrator account, but now I am adding a new local account, because I want to give certain users access to software without having to enter a password. I created the local account without problems, but now I want to share several files used by the software. The program is JMRI, a program used by model railroaders. I can run the program as a local user, but the files used by the program (already created as an admin) are available only if I log on as the administrator. I need to know how to make those files available to the local user. I don't relish the thought of re-creating all of those files!Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Hello adson3492, welcome to Windows Forum. You would be better off starting a new thread with this matter as it is totally divorced from the thread above this one. Just copy and paste your post into a new thread with a Title that suits your problem. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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