Re: Change or become Administrator for a while
From: Donald Jacobsen (dmj_at_nospam.midsouth.rr.com)
Date: 09/05/03
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:39:53 GMT
First, log in under your wife's account. Then go to Settings->Control
Panel->User Accounts and select your user name by clicking on it. The window
should change to say "What do you want to change about your account?". Click
"Change my account type". Then, it should let you select Computer
Administrator as your account type. After selecting Computer Administrator,
hit Change Account Type. Log out from your wife's account and back into your
account, and boom - you now have admin priveleges. ;)
If for some reason you want to return your account back to limited user
status, you can repeat the same steps above, only you should be able to do
it from your own admin-empowered account.
As a note, you can have more than one account set as a Computer
Administrator, and it will not negatively affect anything as far as program
installation, etc. It will make an additional admin account available
(yours), which is a security risk, but you should be fine. Hope this helps.
--Donald
"Chris Cone" <chris_cone@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:2fc701c373e6$f07e7ec0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello
> We puchased a new honme computer from Dell and run the
> Window XP Home Editon. My wife is the Administrator, due
> to having kids at home and such. I am just a user. We have
> McAfee Security running on the machine. I piurhcased a
> Palm product and need to install the program, however,
> when attempting to install on with my Log In the
> Installation tells me I am not the Administrator, and shut
> me out. I would attempt to install under my wife, but she
> does not share my Outlook Files at all (has no need of
> them) and therefore installing the Palm software on her
> Login takes me to her stuff, not mine.
> Is there a way I can become a temporary Administrator, in
> order to get access to my Login area, and install the Palm
> items needs and then get out and have her become the
> Administrator again?
> This was the suggestion of Palm Techheads, but I am not
> wanting to screw things up so I thought I would ask for a
> bit of help here first. Any suggestions would be welcome.
> Chris Cone
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