A friend works for a small, family owned architectural firm as the bookkeeper. The owner is relatively computer illiterate except for the programs he uses. In an ill-advised moment of sympathy, he allowed a young friend of the family to begin maintaining his W98 workgroup. The kid decided that all their problems, (which he created), would be solved by an upgrade to XP. I was asked, along with my senior admin, to fix the W98 workgroup and oversee the upgrade, which we did. The bookkeeper was in the middle of year-end, and has not had the upgrade done for fear of losing data. She wouldn’t mind a W2K upgrade, but doesn’t like XP. (“It’s too invasive, and looks like a video game.”) Now the question.
There is now bad blood between themini-admin and the bookkeeper. The bookkeeper fears a vendetta, as the admin is an unethical person (proven by theft, lying, etc.)and could do things (with administrative privileges) to undermine her work efforts. Would a dual-boot system allow her to lock down a W2K O/S and still access the workgroup? Hopefully, by the time there is an XP Server, the owner will be convinced that this kid (the admin) should not have admin privileges.