Demoting local admins to 'users'

From: adi (adi@nospam.com)
Date: 10/15/02 

From: "adi" <adi@nospam.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:46:06 -0700

Log on with the domain admin profile, set-up a new local
user, copy the local admin profile (My
computer/properties/user profile)to the new local user !

>-----Original Message-----
>Does anyone know of a way to 'cleanly' demote a local
>admin to a 'user'. I've tried moving them out of the
>admin group but when they log in they don't have any of
>the settings they had when they were an admin. (Icons,
>mapped drives, etc.) When I move them back to Admin,
>everything is restored. I have several employees who
were
>set up as local admins by a previous administrator and I
>need to lock them down.
>.
>

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