Re: XP Home Ed Security Tab

From: ken (greyzmom@msn.com)
Date: 02/05/03 

From: "ken" <greyzmom@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:05:51 -0800

Thank you for the response. I was hoping that there
would be a registry hack to show the tab, instead of
having to teach someone the command line utilities. If
Microsoft keeps dumbing down their products, they are
only going to be able to market to the dumb.

>-----Original Message-----
>Ken wrote:
>> According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 308418,
>> the only way to see the security tab in Windows XP Home
>> Edition is to go into Safe Mode. Is this correct or is
>> there another way?
>
>Yes. You can, however, use command line tools such as
cacls.exe without
>being in safe mode.
>
>> If it is correct, does anyone know of
>> a valid reason for this behavior?
>
>Depends on what you call a "Valid" reason. Microsoft
designed XP home this
>way, its a "limitation" of the home product. One reason
may be to stop too
>many inexperienced users from locking themselves out of
their computer by
>denying themselves all access to the hard disk.
>
>
>.
>

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