Re: Types of users

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:52:08 -0500

You don't. XP Home only recognizes Administrator and Limited User (User)
accounts. This is an issue between the NTFS file system and QuickBooks.
The Limited User account does not have the necessary access to parts of the
file system and the Registry to run the program. 

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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
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Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Dan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:000501c3c011$b23487f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I am using Windows XP Home. When I create users, it
> allows me to choose between two types: administrator and
> limited. I am trying to run QuickBooks on this system,
> and whenever I try to execute the program from a limited
> user, I get the following message:
>
> "Your user account for Windows was created with
> Restricted access to system resources. Ask your system
> administrator to grant you Standard user rights."
>
> I don't want to make this user an administrator. How do I
> grant this user "Standard user rights"?

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