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Author: Paul Wilson
Windows XP is an operating system par excellence. Easy to use it comes with some amazing features.
1. The computer management screen allows control of the operating system from a single interface.
2. The event viewer permits viewing of logs maintained by XP as default
3. The shared folders file lists all folders that can be shared by remote users. The Sessions List displays all remote users connected to the computer. And, the Open Files List indicates all files being accessed by remote users. An invaluable system this helps in security. The system is such that files in drive C: are shared by default. To prevent this, a password must protect all user accounts. One can however remove remote users from the system.
4. An interface permits management of users, passwords, and groups (XP professional). The 'groups' option allows restricting as well as assigning rights as privileges to multiple users. The default users group cannot use systems applications to install software. Only the administrators group has unlimited access to the system. The Microsoft web server software creates IUSR-xxx accounts that permit access to web pages created by you to remote users. To protect the files disable the guest account, which is a security lapse. Further, password protect all administrator and user accounts. Caution! XP home and professional by default make users created during installation process a part of the administrators group.
5. Win2K creates a database ( Next Page )
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