[hupjack]

I while back, when the outsourced IT management company was first brought on, our machines were more locked down..

nobody had admin privileges to install software on their own computer. while I appreciated the importance of this, as a power user, i've always been granted permissions by IT firms at other companies so that I can customize my environment with XP powertoys, install google chrome etc.

I think most of the company has the ability to install software.. I don't think most people install crap.. I think the computers have all just been in use for so long that they've started to run like dogs.

Do you disagree that after 2-4 years of just general operating, most wintel boxes start running substantially slower for whatever reason, and a reformat speed them up substantially? Had zero software been installed / updated over those years, I'm sure the machines would be happier..

At this pt, I just want my fellow employees computers not to all suck.. I personally want to refresh everybody's machines so that they serve us well as productivity tools and not a frustrating unstable time suck.

I feel like many of them at this pt should be re-imaged, and probably people need their admin privileged revoked.

When software that we SHOULD all get though comes out, how does not having software install privileges work? Many programs update themselves... Chrome does full self program updates.. a firefox updates plugins..

would all of the "in app" auto-update processes get rejected by the logged in user not having admin / install rights? Probably a relatively small negative, but I recall personally having a computer at one point or another, where programs were trying to auto-update themselves over the web, and get tripped up by the user not having install privleges.