[GNC] Today's search....for .lck

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Thu Aug 10 12:20:12 EDT 2023


On 8/10/2023 11:12 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Barry,
>
> Be sure you aren't confusing the two users on your system! (one is 
> "Barry Mahon" and the other is "administrato")
>
> Regards,
> Adrien 


Barry. although you are a single human being with multiple user log ins 
on your computer, the computer does not "know" that all of these users 
are a single human. As far as your computer is concerned, different people.

Take my household as an example. I am the administrator on all of our 
computers. I am also an ordinary user on the one I mainly use and my 
wife is an ordinary user of the one she mainly uses. On my computer, the 
two accounts are a single human user but on my wife's, two different humans.

If you have an ordinary ;pg in and an administrator log in it is 
important for you to keep in your mind "which am I logged in to at this 
moment?". Ideally you are not logged in as administrator except for the 
brief times when you need administrator rights and you do all your 
ordinary work while logged in as an ordinary user. LOL, back in my 
working days that was real important. In addition to my regular log in I 
had a "prod" log in for emergency use. A mistake made while I was logged 
in "prod" could be real serious.

Michael D Novack



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