In Safe Mode you have an account called the Administrator which is quite
separate from a User Account having 'Administrator' status. You can name
a User Account having 'Administrator' status what you like to
distinguish from the other account.
User accounts overview
User accounts personalize Windows for each person who is sharing a
computer. You can choose your own account name, picture, and password,
and choose other settings that will apply only to you. A user account
gives you a personalized view of your own files, a list of favorite Web
sites, and a list of recently visited Web pages. With a user account,
documents you create or save are stored in your own My Documents folder,
separate from the documents of others who also use the computer.
To help keep your files more secure and to help make sure they remain
private, use a password for your user account. You can still mark
certain items as shared if you want other people to be able to access
them. If you do not use a password for your user account, other people
will have access to your account and be able to see all of your folders
and files.
If you have a user account and you change computer settings, such as the
type, size, or the screen saver, those settings will apply only to your
account.
As a user with a computer administrator account, you can create, delete,
and change all user accounts on the computer. You can create as many
accounts on the computer as you want, and have full access to all
accounts on the computer. For information about the types of accounts
available, click Related Topics.
Source -Help and Support.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chris Skrimshire wrote:
> I have created a new (Limited) user account but found that I couldn't
> enable IE - got an 'IE has to close' error box.
>
> As suggested somewhere, if I make the new account 'Administrator'
> status, IE loads OK. But I don't want two administrators.
>
> What's the way round this?
I'm not sure what the function of the administrator account in Safe mode is
for but what you say about administrator status for accounts in normal mode
is what I understood.
I'm still not sure I like the idea of multiple users being able to delete
accounts.
What I would like to understand is how to enable program access to users in
'limited' status. Is this a case of 'if it works it works' , or are there
tweaks to make it work?
Incidentally, is there a quick way of displaying which user account is
active?
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Regards,
Chris Skrimshire
"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:u6iMHj%239IHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Chris
>
> In Safe Mode you have an account called the Administrator which is quite
> separate from a User Account having 'Administrator' status. You can name a
> User Account having 'Administrator' status what you like to distinguish
> from the other account.
>
> User accounts overview
> User accounts personalize Windows for each person who is sharing a
> computer. You can choose your own account name, picture, and password, and
> choose other settings that will apply only to you. A user account gives
> you a personalized view of your own files, a list of favorite Web sites,
> and a list of recently visited Web pages. With a user account, documents
> you create or save are stored in your own My Documents folder, separate
> from the documents of others who also use the computer.
> To help keep your files more secure and to help make sure they remain
> private, use a password for your user account. You can still mark certain
> items as shared if you want other people to be able to access them. If you
> do not use a password for your user account, other people will have access
> to your account and be able to see all of your folders and files.
> If you have a user account and you change computer settings, such as the
> type, size, or the screen saver, those settings will apply only to your
> account.
> As a user with a computer administrator account, you can create, delete,
> and change all user accounts on the computer. You can create as many
> accounts on the computer as you want, and have full access to all accounts
> on the computer. For information about the types of accounts available,
> click Related Topics.
> Source -Help and Support.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> Chris Skrimshire wrote:
>> I have created a new (Limited) user account but found that I couldn't
>> enable IE - got an 'IE has to close' error box.
>>
>> As suggested somewhere, if I make the new account 'Administrator'
>> status, IE loads OK. But I don't want two administrators.
>>
>> What's the way round this?
>
>
The sole purpose of the Administrator in Safe Mode is to manage User
Accounts. You can password user accounts. It is pointless in most Home
situations unless you are dealing with juveniles. In any event a really
smart kid can find out how to get round a password.
I am not sufficiently knowledgeable to offer advice on how to control
programme access.
One way to quickly to determine which User Account is active is to look
at the Users tab in Task Manager -Ctrl+Alt+Del.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chris Skrimshire wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> Thanks.
>
> I'm not sure what the function of the administrator account in Safe
> mode is for but what you say about administrator status for accounts
> in normal mode is what I understood.
>
> I'm still not sure I like the idea of multiple users being able to
> delete accounts.
>
> What I would like to understand is how to enable program access to
> users in 'limited' status. Is this a case of 'if it works it works' ,
> or are there tweaks to make it work?
>
> Incidentally, is there a quick way of displaying which user account is
> active?
>
>
> Chris Skrimshire
> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:u6iMHj%239IHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Chris
>>
>> In Safe Mode you have an account called the Administrator which is
>> quite separate from a User Account having 'Administrator' status.
>> You can name a User Account having 'Administrator' status what you
>> like to distinguish from the other account.
>>
>> User accounts overview
>> User accounts personalize Windows for each person who is sharing a
>> computer. You can choose your own account name, picture, and
>> password, and choose other settings that will apply only to you. A
>> user account gives you a personalized view of your own files, a list
>> of favorite Web sites, and a list of recently visited Web pages.
>> With a user account, documents you create or save are stored in your
>> own My Documents folder, separate from the documents of others who
>> also use the computer. To help keep your files more secure and to
>> help make sure they remain
>> private, use a password for your user account. You can still mark
>> certain items as shared if you want other people to be able to
>> access them. If you do not use a password for your user account,
>> other people will have access to your account and be able to see all
>> of your folders and files. If you have a user account and you change
>> computer settings, such as
>> the type, size, or the screen saver, those settings will apply only
>> to your account.
>> As a user with a computer administrator account, you can create,
>> delete, and change all user accounts on the computer. You can create
>> as many accounts on the computer as you want, and have full access
>> to all accounts on the computer. For information about the types of
>> accounts available, click Related Topics.
>> Source -Help and Support.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris Skrimshire wrote:
>>> I have created a new (Limited) user account but found that I
>>> couldn't enable IE - got an 'IE has to close' error box.
>>>
>>> As suggested somewhere, if I make the new account 'Administrator'
>>> status, IE loads OK. But I don't want two administrators.
>>>
>>> What's the way round this?
Hi there,
I have a user account named "Compaq_Owner" with limited access. I can
neither change the name of the account nor create a new user account. Can
anybody help?
Thanks
"Chris Skrimshire" wrote:
> I have created a new (Limited) user account but found that I couldn't enable
> IE - got an 'IE has to close' error box.
>
> As suggested somewhere, if I make the new account 'Administrator' status, IE
> loads OK. But I don't want two administrators.
>
> What's the way round this?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Chris Skrimshire
>
>
>
> Hi there,
> I have a user account named "Compaq_Owner" with limited access. I can
> neither change the name of the account nor create a new user account. Can
> anybody help?
> Thanks
I gather you are not the Original Poster? Next time please make a new post
instead of interjecting yours into someone else's thread. Next time also
provide more information about your system, the version of XP you have, and
the recent history of the machine.
If you have XP Home, boot into Safe Mode. You will now see the built-in
Administrator account. The default password is a blank. Log into that
account and go to Control Panel>User Accounts and create a new user account
with administrative privileges ("Computer Administrator"). Log out and into
the new account.
If you have XP Pro, you don't need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome
Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows.
If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have
Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in
Administrator account's password to a blank.
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