Editing membership in XP pro built-in user groups

From: David Jones (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/31/03


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:39:34 -0800

There's not a way to do this that I know of.
What are you looking to do by doing this? The groups
don't do anything if you don't add any user accounts to
them.

>-----Original Message-----
>I want to remove various groups that are on my computer,
>including power users, backup operators, and so on, but
>the computer won't let me. it says that changes aren't
>allowed to built in groups. Any suggestions?
>.
>



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