Re: XP Pro Administrators

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 06/12/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:29:31 -0700

Since you didn't say whether this is workgroup or domain, it would be
difficult to make a decent suggestion. 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Jim <miijp@aol.com> wrote:
> I have 3 XP Pro workstations on my network.
>
> The users of these workstations needed to have more
> priviledges beyond a power-user so I upgraded them to
> administrators.
>
> Even though they are listed as administrators, they still
> keep getting the security pop-ups when they try to install
> programs.  They also can't run any of the administrator
> functions and applets on the workstation unless they use
> the "Run As" option.
>
> I've tried deleting their accounts, and re-create then as
> a new-user with Administrator rights, but they still don't
> seem to get any of the workstation administrator
> priviledges.
>
> The only administrator on the user list that seems to have
> full priviledges is the one that says "built in account"
> in the properties description field.
>
> I've also looked through the default group policy, but
> can't find anything obviously wrong.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

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