Re: Windows XP Professional User accounts

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/11/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:10:41 -0700

There are a number of features XP Pro provides that are
missing in Home edition. You will discover these over time.

At an inital install/upgrade, XP Pro is using Simple file sharing
which makes it in part appear very Home-like.
One switches out from Simple sharing at the base of the View
tab in the Folder Options. This enables the security dialog in
the properties of NTFS object, changes the nature of the
Sharing tab, and allows each account to access shared info
(inbound to the machine from elsewhere) as itself.

One other major difference you may wish to check into is
the presence of local policy tools, such as the Local Security
Policy in the admin tools. (Just be careful in there, it is powerful.
Do a little research on what you want to change before doing so,
and be aware that changes there impact every account on the
machine, admins included.)

Roger
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:007601c3d6d8$9a0c8e60$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I was under the understanding that by upgrading from
> Windows XP home edition to Professional Edition that I
> would have more flexibility with the user accounts, that
> the limited would allow me to set programs that the
> limited user could use and also install some programs on
> the limitied user.. I just finished installing XP
> Professional and it doesn't appear to give me that kind
> of flexibility is there a patch or a way to fix this?

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