Making the jump to LUA (part 2)

In my earlier post about moving away from using an administrator account for daily use, I mentioned a problem with MSN Messenger and the fact that upgrading to the latest version (8.0) fixed it - well, it did not. What happened was that after I installed Messenger using my administrative account, Messenger ran - using the administrative account. Stopping and restarting using my regular account produced a login error message again. Lots of people seem to have the same problem, so I took a different route by downloading and installing Gaim.

A few more issues I ran into since my last post:

Symantec AntiVirus no longer auto-protects my hard drive. I decided that was acceptable and scheduled nightly scans of my hard drive instead.

Microsoft Word shows an error regarding Adobe macros when starting up. Apparently the Adobe Acrobat macros that get installed in Microsoft Office don't work when running as non-admin. I'll try to uninstall them, they don't seem to be essential.

All Microsoft Passport related logins seem broken. This also is not a big issue for me, I dropped Microsoft's Finance site in favor of Google's a while ago, and the automatic update feature in my copy of Microsoft Money 2003 has been broken for a long time anyway.

Visual Studio 2003 actually worked with the exception of web application debugging, I had to set the ASP.NET worker process to run under my regular user account instead of the SYSTEM account. Instructions for this were actually referenced with the error message that appeared.

Otherwise everything looks just fine right now, I'll post again in a few days with any additional experiences.