Re: Admin Privileges

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 06/18/03 

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:01:56 -0700

There may be many admins on a single box.
The built-in admin may be renamed but may not be
deleted or disabled.

After her account was added to Administrators,
did she log off and back in. The list of groups
to which an account belongs is only built when
first authenticating.

"TF" <dba@kalbianhagerty.com> wrote in message
news:02f401c33515$53858330$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> An employee in the office just got a new desktop with
> Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP
> Professional.
>
> When I set up the computer, I created an "Admin" user with
> full administrative privileges and created an "employee"
> user for the employee with limited privileges. Several
> actions she has tried to take resulted in an error message
> stating she did not have administrative privileges to
> perform that action (this includes such actions as
> performing a live update with Norton antivirus as well as
> some actions in Outlook).
>
> I thought I could solve this problem by giving her
> administrative privileges. I did so, but she continues to
> get the same error messages.
>
> My second guess was that you are not allowed to have two
> users with administrative privileges on the same system,
> so I tried to delete the "Admin" account. Windows would
> not allow me to do so (I was logged in as the "employee"
> user which I had given admin privileges to while
> attempting to delete the "Admin" user).
>
> Do you know what is going on and how I can solve these
> issues?

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