Admin/limited user good practice

Hello, I wonder if there are any good practice pointers regarding Admin/User accounts.
Should one, for example, install stuff from an admin ID and use from a limited user login?

Malcolm Rayfield is on the ball. I would add that you should set up a spare admin user and check 'he' works from time to time but otherwise leave him alone.
If anyone suggests that is unneeded search through these forums to see the number of times people post about defective admins and a consequent loss of ability to fix it. Especially look at the lenghts you would need to go in the advice given by Netinfo experts here. E.G Go into single user/ complex serial terminal commands to modify Netinfo. I would prefer to avoid that.

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Attachments:
cTDM Map Test.zip ‏868 KB

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Hi,
Sorry for my english first. I'm not an english speaker...
That's one week I'm playing with my Tc to try to set it up with admin and users privileges and and doesn't succeed to find a good way to do it....
What I want to do: set up my Tc so that I'm an admin and can do whatever I want in the folders of each user. I want the user to have access to one folder with their name. Let's say I would like to user my TC like a usual network drive or NAS.
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AdapterDeviceID: 0x2a42
AdapterDriverVersion: 7.15.10.1518
AdapterSubsysID: 145010cf
AdapterVendorID: 0x8086
Add-ons: jid1-ASMu9YBkP688TA%40jetpack:0.2.1,jid0-bbA9VAawX3LMWDu668aUDrpQVXU%40jetpack:1.0.0,%7B6140bbfd-aa20-11e1-aba7-109add603214%7D:1.6.9,%7Bd10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d%7D:2.6.6,jid1-BJLRspk01OAAzg%40jetpack:0.5,jid1-YvCVXxA75Ob1eQ%40jetpack:1.0,jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ%40jetpack:0.2.5,fastestsearch%40mingyi.org:3.31
AvailablePageFile: 2471198720
AvailablePhysicalMemory: 168935424
AvailableVirtualMemory: 140570624
BIOS_Manufacturer: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
BlockedDllList:
BreakpadReserveAddress: 48693248
BreakpadReserveSize: 41943040
BuildID: 20141126041045
CrashTime: 1420502879
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: p&&&&&j&&&&@gmail.com
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1418173648
JSOutOfMemory: Reported
Notes: AdapterVendorID: 0x8086, AdapterDeviceID: 0x2a42, AdapterSubsysID: 145010cf, AdapterDriverVersion: 7.15.10.1518
OOMAllocationSize: 1
ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 33503
StartupTime: 1420502497
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 94
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
TotalPageFile: 6565580800
TotalPhysicalMemory: 3172098048
TotalVirtualMemory: 2147352576
URL:
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 34.0.5
Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 3 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 1 :
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 3 :
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 1 :
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{D704FED5-D1F5-4859-8B7B-C3DEF3712C72}] SEQPACKET 0 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{D704FED5-D1F5-4859-8B7B-C3DEF3712C72}] DATAGRAM 0 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{849F5044-0498-477B-8D72-28EE4D2B3729}] SEQPACKET 3 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{849F5044-0498-477B-8D72-28EE4D2B3729}] DATAGRAM 3 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{773EB279-D9E7-4A45-BB64-2F99268E9A53}] SEQPACKET 6 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{773EB279-D9E7-4A45-BB64-2F99268E9A53}] DATAGRAM 6 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{2B5D0F9B-5F42-4471-8299-3D8E5AB93687}] SEQPACKET 5 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{2B5D0F9B-5F42-4471-8299-3D8E5AB93687}] DATAGRAM 5 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{9AA1DCBA-B641-46CA-942D-B1E6F112D0AC}] SEQPACKET 4 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{9AA1DCBA-B641-46CA-942D-B1E6F112D0AC}] DATAGRAM 4 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{A7317EE0-B0B1-4815-861F-E7D47D2038B8}] SEQPACKET 9 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{A7317EE0-B0B1-4815-861F-E7D47D2038B8}] DATAGRAM 9 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{D704FED5-D1F5-4859-8B7B-C3DEF3712C72}] SEQPACKET 1 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{D704FED5-D1F5-4859-8B7B-C3DEF3712C72}] DATAGRAM 1 : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{849F5044-0498-477B-8D72-28EE4D2B3729}] SEQPACKET 8 : 2 : 5 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{849F5044-0498-477B-8D72-28EE4D2B3729}] DATAGRAM 8 : 2 : 2 :
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Looks like you cleaned up the email before posting, which is good.
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* ''"3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
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duffymo wrote:
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