Re: how to change user account type?

From: Mark Dormer (markd_at_mvpsx.org)
Date: 09/01/05


Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:40:48 +1000

Just add the users to the Power Users group and remove them from the
Administrators group.
You don't need to create new profiles.

Regards
Mark Dormer

"japi_s" <japis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB98D3E9-D2BC-49F7-867E-9206CBE82CF9@microsoft.com...
> Hi all, i need a solution to this problem asap.
> All users in the company that i work for are logged in as administrators.
> We
> use workgroup here. I want to move them off the administrator account to
> maybe "Power User" account. I want that all the stuff that they have saved
> on
> their PC and their settings etc should be copied over to the new profile.
>
> I have created a new power user account and called it lets say
> "TargetUser".
> I copied the "Administrator" porfile to "TargetUser". Now when i log on
> into
> the "TargetUser" account,i can see the changes and things go tru fine. But
> the changes that i make in this account (Target user) gets discarded when
> i
> restart the machine. For example, if i have changed the desktop settings
> (show my computer icon on desktop), it reverts back to the old settings. I
> am
> not using "mandatory" profile.
> Besides that we work over a Novell enviornment, and for email we use
> Groupwise and Innoculate as a virus guard, they dont carry over to the new
> profile.
>
> What should i do??
>



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