Re: Administrators changes to Debugger Users

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:16:41 -0400

A user can be a member of multiple groups (Administrators, Debugger Users, Remote Desktop Users). Users are added to the Debuggers group when Visual Studio and other applications that use the debugging tools are installed. For XP Pro, use LUSRMGR.MSC to view the users and the groups they belong to. You should see that these users are still Administrators, as well as being members of the Debugger Users group. 

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"Valacho" <Valacho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:980DEAF0-652D-4CC2-AB39-55E77871E146@microsoft.com...
> After setting up a system running Windows XP Pro with the user set to be a 
> member of the Administrators group, that spontaneously changes so the user is 
> a member of the "Debugger Users" group.  I wonder if anyone else has come 
> across this, and if he knows why it occurs.  It isn't generally a problem, 
> but it does cause some problems at times with some of the software we use 
> which requires the user be an Administrator.  I think it gets changed when 
> running windows updates, but I'm not sure.  I would like to be able to set a 
> user as an administrator and have that remain the setting, without wondering 
> how long that will remain in effect.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.

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