Re: What's the difference between User Accounts and User Accounts2 (userpasswords2)
From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 11/22/03
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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:14:21 -0700
There seems to be one checkbox, for enabling/disabling automatic
login, which is mentioned in the Help system as being in User Accounts,
but which is available only in the pwds 2 interface.
-- Roger Abell Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security) MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA "Wesley VogelX" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message news:Durvb.202848$9E1.1083940@attbi_s52... > Kent; > I don't quite understand what you mean by ["control userpasswords2" is the > 2K version.] > I missed the part about being on a network. On a stand alone machine, with XP > Home. > control userpasswords2 Brings up User Accounts, the one you would get from My > Computer/Manage/Local Users and Groups. > -- > From KB817365 > [The userpasswords2 applet should not be used on WINDOWS XP Home Edition as a > tool to edit or modify users. It is reserved for WINDOWS XP Professional > Edition. The reason for this is that userpasswords2 allows the user to access to > the 'Power Users' group which doesn't exist on WINDOWS XP Home Edition.] > Interesting, I see people recommending using userpasswords2 all the time > without regard to which version a user has. > -- > control userpasswords Brings up User Accounts, the one you get from Control > Panel/User Accounts. This also brings up mshta.exe = Microsoft (R) HTML > Application host. > -- > Wes > > In news:%23KloEx%23rDHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl, > Kent W. England [MVP] <kwe@mvps.org> hunted and pecked at the keyboard: > > User Accounts is the XP version and "control userpasswords2" is the 2K > > version. They sure look different to me on a stand-alone computer. > > > > > > "Mike Matheny" <mikematheny@swbelldotnet> wrote in > > message news:eQTNKw7rDHA.540@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > >> They both look identical to me (XP Pro part of a Win2K3 domain) >
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