Re: Windows XP - User Accounts -BUGS?

From: d2004xx (d2004xx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/21/04

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    ssl11ras@yahoo.com (Dave) wrote in message news:<e9640c0b.0402201918.6e9861d0@posting.google.com>...
    > Hi,
    >
    > In XP User Accounts I wanted to not login daily using an Administrator
    > account for security, therefore I created another account and made it
    > a Computer Administrator and then changed the original Computer
    > Administrator account to have limited access. Well it doesn't work.
    >
    > In User Accounts each time I change either of those two accounts to
    > have limited access, they always default back to Computer
    > Administrator level access, when I exit and enter the User Accounts
    > program.

    Why not just use the original "Adminstrator" as admin account and
    create a new limited account? This works perfectly for me.

    >
    > My XP Home Edition machine is completely up to date with all patches.

    M$'s patches would never fix problems like this.

    > I don't know why this is happening, does anyone know the answer?

    Maybe the "Adminstrator" just can't be changed?

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