<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 May 2012 10:42, <a href="mailto:david@gbenet.com">david@gbenet.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@gbenet.com" target="_blank">david@gbenet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":129">I have an old HP<br>
Pavilion here - I was given it as a freebie - it was an ex-business user laptop running<br>
Vista</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Probably not a surprise. I used to work for a business which would definitely not have wanted people installing anything, and had done something highly protective at boot level to stop that happening. Businesses do have security needs, not least in relation to protecting personal data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So it may well not have been just vanilla Vista that was in place. </div><div><br></div><div>David</div>