Re: Can I clone Administrator?
From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 10/08/02
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From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:28:34 -0700
No, you don't want to rename the profile folder. That is never renamed
when you change the name of an account.
-- Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP (Please respond only in the newsgroup) Opus <opus@bloomcounty.net> wrote: > I should note also that if you rename Administrator, you may have to > also rename the Administrator folder in Documents and Settings. I > don't recall having to do that when I renamed Administrator in > servers for the DoD, but I may just be forgetting. > > "Opus" <opus@bloomcounty.net> wrote in message > news:uVE6wRnbCHA.1700@tkmsftngp10... >> You should always, ALWAYS, have a second administrator account. All >> you have to do is create a second user using User Accounts and set >> it as a Computer Administrator. (This can also be accomplished >> manually using the Computer Management console under Control >> Panel/Administrative Tools. Open Local Users and Groups and then >> open Users. Select New User in the action menu and enter the user >> name and password and press Create. Then, double-click the user in >> the right pane of the console to open and select the members tab. >> Press the Add button, type the word 'administrators' in the white >> box and press OK. Then press OK again.) Both procedures do the >> same thing, but sometimes I just like the added control of the >> longer method. >> >> For added security, you can rename the original Administrator >> account. The U.S. Department of Defense actually requires this for >> its Windows2k/XP servers. To rename the Administrator account, you >> must use the Computer Management console as the User Accounts dialog >> does not offer the functionality. To rename an account in the CMC, >> right click on the account name in the right pane of the CMC with >> the Users folder selected. (Warning: DO NOT rename the >> 'Administrators' group. Be sure you have Users selected on the >> left.) Select Rename on the context menu and give it any name you >> like. Nothing changes except the name of the account. It still has >> all of the privileges that it had before, but you must now login to >> that account with the new name. Note: The password is not changed >> by this procedure. >> >> Although I have not confirmed this, it may be requiring you to >> create an Administrator account when you are using the XP Welcome >> Screen login process. When this is setup correctly, the main >> Administrator account should never appear in the list, and you >> should always have an account in the list that has administrator >> privilege. This does not have to be a clone of the Administrator. >> It must simply be a member of the Administrators group. Unless >> something very unusual happened, the software you installed using >> the original Administrator account will be available to the second >> administrator as well as the limited account--except those programs >> that have been restricted to regular users. You may have to do some >> trial and error to get things working with the limited account. If >> you are using NTFS, you may have to set some privileges in the file >> system. Moreover, some games that I installed as Administrator >> would not work until I expanded the permissions of the games' >> registry entries to include regular users. Note: To set privileges >> in the registry, you must use regedt32 instead of regedit. >> >> "Allan" <akirson@fleetpath.com> wrote in message >> news:1214201c26e44$c6988130$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13... >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> I've been running for 6 months with ONLY the Administrator >>>> account... Now to add a limited account it says I must first add >>>> an administrator account. From looking over messages here in the >>>> newsgroup, it appears that I should have done this right away, and >>>> then had a John Doe Administrator, with the original Administrator >>>> out of sight somehwere by default. >>>> >>>> The problem is that if I now make myself John Doe Adminstrator I >>>> don't have access to many of the programs I installed in the last >>>> five months. From what I've read it isn't a simple matter to just >>>> move a short cut from the Administrator to John Doe Administrator. >>>> >>>> Is there any way to clone my current Administrator so that when I >>>> sign in as John Doe Administrator I'll have access to all the same >>>> programs? I don't care about the desktop and that sort of thing >>>> because that's easy to change. It's all the other stuff that's a >>>> problem (like Palm Desktop, one of the most important apps I >>>> run....) >>> >>> Dennis, >>> I have exactly the same problem - I'll be following this >>> thread with interest, and ask that if you find a >>> solution, to please let me know. I'll do the same. >>> Allan
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