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Hi,
I would like to loan my surface pro device to a friend for a few weeks.
I don't want to give them my MS password, but I want to give them admin access.
Any tip on how I would go about that?
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Neither a borrower nor lender of computers be.
It always ends in tears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thought Surface Pro was running Windows 8; can't you just create another user ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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mm.. probably.. but if I give them admin access, I don't want them to modify my account!
maybe I will see how to power up the guest account
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Why would you give them Admin access ?
Just have an admin account, your main account with "power user" privileges and an "guest" account with limited access (browse, use apps, ... )
You could even have different limited account for your different friends.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Let them log on with their own MS account (thus creating their own account on the machine), and then you log into your own account and modify theirs to be an admin? I don't know if that would work or not, but you could give it a try.
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Just had to share!
On the downside, my Start8 start menu is gone! 
[EDIT] Already applying Windows Update! 
modified 11-Sep-13 5:49am.
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Super Lloyd wrote: my Start8 start menu is gone!
Can you bring it back? I ask because I am sure that they [MS] still haven't sorted their sh!t out and given back a decent ux.
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Apparently[^]...
Will give it a go for a little while, see if I can get used to it first
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This whole "use a shell around Windows" thing isn't new.
I used to use a shell around Win 3.1 (I think it was called "PowerBar", but can't remember for sure, and googling that would be a waste of effort), and there were numerous shells for Win '95, '98, and Vista.
The only difference now is that baby blocks has resulted in the whole wide world learning that it's possible to run a UI shell.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I still don't know whate use the Start Button should have in Win 8.1... People were asking for the Start Menu not the button...
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But it is cute, you have to admit! ^^
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Yes, because they are all too stupid to realize that their "start menu" is all those blocks on the screen. Or maybe they'd much rather click, then scroll, then find what they are looking for, then accidentally close the wrong one they opened, then close it, then repeat the process and choose the correct program this time.
That's waaaaay better than clicking the block on the screen to start a program.
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the "start screen" is replacing the "start menu" that's true so far. But its not an equivalent for it! You can do so much more with the start menu than with the start screen.
Examples:
You can't group multiple applications together (As with subfolders in the start menu) unless you manually clutter your start screen with all those small applications and arrange them in groups. Especially makes a lot of sense if you just use them say once a month.
The start menu was able to provide links to a lot of applications without getting too messy. Most often you were able to find the application you were searching for by simple following common logic. Sure finding an application on the Windows 8 start screen might be simple... as long as there aren't more than say 20 (made up number) applications on it...
Then again you can search for an application when typing on the start screen... also quite easy but then again you have to KNOW the name of the application you're looking for (how do you remember the name of an applications you don't use on a daily basis?) I e.g. had trouble finding my VPN Client application. as I just couldn't remember the name of it. I knew the name of the vendor but that didn't help when typing in the search box of the start menu as the application name didn't contain the name of the vendor nor the word "vpn". I found it in the start menu because after a quick look at the programs folder of the start menu I found the vendor and so I found the application. Say: How do I find this application in windows 8?
I know this is probaly more an edge case. But those are also always the cases when you don't have time to play around and spend time searching for a certain program.
Additionaly you get the problem of desktop applications vs metro style apps. Let's say you're in the process of writing some documentation and need a programm (a metro app) to get some additional information from (e.g. your default browser). Now hey this application runs as a full screen app. yeah very funny when you quickly want to switch between multiple applications, isn't it?
I wouldn't mind having Windows 8 on a Phone or a Tablet. But using it on a desktop computer for something productive isn't really what I expect of an OS.
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Oh... I see the problem. You all just have one computer you do everything on. No wonder everyone has so many problems with Windows. 
Only half joking.
In mumbly-mumbly years of doing this here computer stuff, I have never once had to do any of the things you mentioned.
Everything I use is either a shortcut on the desktop (kinda like Win8, come to think of it), or (these days) on the task bar a the bottom (which could have easily been shortcuts, anyway).
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I've mapped nearly everything I use regularly to hotkeys. I don't use the start menu often but when I do it's when even the Windows 8 start screen can't help me anymore
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There are only 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don’t.
CAPS LOCK – Preventing Login Since 1980.
My attitude isn’t bad. It’s in beta.
or
I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly.
[Edited]
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A man goes inside a pet shop and starts to move around the cages to scout the pets.
He sees a monkey with a price of $5000 and goes to the merchant to ask for details.
Hey mister, the monkey…what does it know to worth that much money?
Well, it knows Windows 95, 98, 2000, and also knows Word, C++, Visual Basic and last but not least, it knows how to play computer games.
Good monkey, it’s worth the money.
He goes and finds another monkey with a price of $10 000 and again he will ask the merchant.
What does this monkey know?
It knows Linux, Unix, Corel and Autocad.
Nice, even I don’t know those things.
On a last scout run he finds another monkey just sitting there with a price $20 000.
The story repeats, and he goes with a lack of confidence to ask the merchant for details.
And what does this monkey do for that ridiculous amount of money?
I never saw her doing anything, but the other two call her Project Manager!
Tell us a joke if you think you can do better otherwise all negative comments are NULL and VOID 
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Old, Old, Old.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Another old 'un that has grown whiskers.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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When does the joke turn up?
I'd hate to miss it.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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This post is an excellent reason for reintroducing down voting in the lounge...I would be tempted to join in on the mass points-smacking you should receive for this if they did.
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Send him to the naughty step!
speramus in juniperus
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I think the website equivalent is The Naughty Site[^]
A few hours there should persuade him!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Send him to the naughty step! |
Naughty step?
It must be terrible being a poor dolite.
I could afford a naughty chair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oooo don't give up the day job.
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