tlhudson69, if you're wondering how to implement a Limited account in practical terms:
1) make a new user account and name it
Admin. By default, it'll be an Administrator-level account because Windows is a 'tard Give it a password, maybe
tlhudson69, that is a decent one. If you don't give it a password, you can't use
Run As..., so give it one.
2) now go to Control Panel > User Accounts and switch your usual account to Limited. You are now laying aside the power to do much harm to the computer, and anything that exploits your programs (browsers, IM, email) will also be deprived of the power to do much harm either.
3) if you need to run something at Admin powers because it won't run properly under a Limited account, one option is to right-click the item while holding down the Shift key, and choose
Run As... and use the
Admin credentials to run it.
4) the protection of a Limited account ends where your common sense fails. If you deliberately run Bad Stuff with the Admin privileges, then that's the end of the Limited account's protection. So keep your hands off the warez, cracks and "patches." :evil:
Also, yeah, get a router. Of the 65535 ports on a TCP/IP connection, you maybe need eight or ten of them actually open, so use the router's configuration menu to arbitrarily close the rest of them, outbound and inbound:
router info, with suggested router.
I wouldn't bother avoiding the use of IE, but I'm just crazy like that :evil: