Re: Administrator Priveleges

From: Ralph (Ralph_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:13:02 -0800

I did that too and it still doesnt work.

"Gordon" wrote:

> Ralph wrote:
> > HI,
> > Thanks for the advice. I went into safe mode and signed in with the
> > administrator username. When I tried to change the account in my
> > username from administrator to limited it told me that I could'nt do
> > that until I had another user assigned as the administrator on the
> > computer. So I could'nt change the account type and the thing still
> > does not work.
> > Any idea what I should do now?
>
> How about doing what it said and creating another Administrator user?
>
> --
> Interim Systems and Management Accounting
> Gordon Burgess-Parker
> Director
> www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
>
>
>

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