You work as the help desk support technician at Domain.com. The Domain.com network does not include an Active Directory domain. All Domain.com users log on to their client computers using local user accounts, and each user is a local administrator on the user’s computer.
A user named Andy Booth makes use of a Windows XP Professional computer that was previously used by another user in a different department. Andy Booth stores many confidential files on this computer.
You have received instruction from the CIO to make sure that only Andy Booth has access to these files. However, encryption for these files is not allowed by Domain.com. You also have to make certain that the former user of the computer does not have access to any files stored on the computer.
Which of the following is the option that you should take to achieve this should you instruct Andy Booth to do?
A.
Instruct Andy Booth to delete the former user’s local user account.
B.
Instruct Andy Booth to delete the former user’s folder in C:Documents and Settings.
C.
Instruct Andy Booth to rename the built-in Administrator account to have his name.
D.
Instruct Andy Booth to remove the former user’s account from the local Users group.
Explanation:
Deleting the former users profile will only force the creation of a new profile if he logs in to the computer. Renaming the built-in administrator account will not help as the former user probably will log in with his own user account and deleting the former users account from the Users group will not help as he also is a member of the local Administrators group. The only way to make sure he doesn’t access the files is by making sure that he can not log on to the computer. This is accomplished by removing ( or disabling) his account and possibly also changing the built-in administrator password.