Re: Why are two Administrator-level accounts required?

From: Jim Cavalaris [MS] (jamesca_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/01/03 

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:07:54 -0700

this limitation is imposed by the user interface for the shell's
"User Accounts" control panel applet only.

on Windows XP Professional, you can still use the "Local Users and
Groups" MMC snap-in directly to create user accounts that are members
of the "Users" group only (i.e. limited users) without having to
create any additional Administrators group users.

"Local Users and Groups" is available by running: lusrmgr.msc
or via the "Computer Management" snap-in: compmgmt.msc

hope this helps,
jim. 

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"Joel Moore" <asdadsasd@asdaadad.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93AB7A3B56466asdsadfgasdgadsa@207.46.248.16...
> Why is it that XP Pro requires there to be two administrative accounts
(the
> default Administrator account and the one that you manually add when
> installing)?
>
> I wanted my personal account to be a limited user account but XP tells me
I
> have to have at least one administrative account on the system and doesn't
> let me change the type to "limited".  I can't even delete it.  Why can't I
> just have the one Administrator account?
>
> It seems like a waste and besides, if I never use one or the other to
> perform my administrative tasks, I'll surely forget the password making it
> useless anyway.
>
> Joel Moore
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