I would think that this should have been thought of long, long ago. What prompted this
We have a new projector on the ceiling in a meeting room. It is wireless (nice). However, I logged into a loaner as myself and installed the software (umm — installed software to use a projector). Anyway, I logged off after testing it out — it worked fine. A few days later, I was asked to setup the projector for an emergency meeting. I said ‘no problem’ as it worked fine.
Anyhow — it DID NOT WORK, I could not get it to find the projector. I dropped a table projector in place after spending too much time trying to get it working.
Later on, I decided to fiddle with it and figure out the problem. I put local users on the loaner systems as Power Users — because dumba$$es keep installing shlt and making me rebuild them too often.
When I moved the local account to the admin group — it suddenly can find the projector ?:| (the SW was installed it just needs to run as admin to see the projector — what dumba$$ thought of that?).
Anyway, then I thought about all of those companies that have meetings in there, most the users do not have admin permissions for on their systems.
So, I thought — Why do OS’s not have a virtual space to use? Would it not be nice to be a power user and have the ability to install some things — not permanently?
I mean really, is this too much? To click a virtual mode button and NOTHING gets saved from that session once it exits? No writing to the HDD, or anything.
Personally, I would use it often — like everytime I went to search for a new utility, or navigate through nasty websites. However, there can be many more uses, especially for those who get locked out of installing things by IT. Sometimes there are legit installs that are missed!
Just a thought — anybody else?
