Re: Changing Passwords

Hi,

Hm... you've right in Home Ed. there isn't Power users group. Actually there
isn't many useful tools if you want to managing of security. It would be
hard to solve your problem with XPHE.

As you can read on MS:
Windows XP Home Edition is designed specifically for home users. (...)
efficient simplicity of Windows Me (- the worst Windows I've ever seen ;).

Differences:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/z04d621675.mspx
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/WinXP/wxpgroups.html

Marcin Domaslawski



U¿ytkownik "Jake" <Jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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Thank you for your reply, could you please tell me the difference between
a
power user and an Administrator. Also I am running xp home and do not have
the option for Power Users Group and windows xp does not have Local users
and
groups in computer management. It would be nice if it was set so no-one at
all could change my password though. Thanks. Jake.

"Marcin Domaslawski" wrote:

Hi,

Administrator account (or mambers of Administrators group) is a user who
will be administering machine so it has to have full control. It's normal
and logical that 2nd admin can change same things as 1st.

You can try prevent him from open some applets from Control Panel or
access
to Control Panel (gpedit.msc -> User configuration -> Control Panel) or
simply change 2nd user from Administrator to Power user.

Marcin Domaslawski



U?ytkownik "Jake" <Jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisa3 w wiadomo?ci
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Hi, I am running windows xp hoe edition, NTFS, and am an administrator
along
with one other person who also has an administrator account. I was
wondering
if there is any way to prevent someone from changing your password? (I
don't
mind if they can still change it in Command Prompt they're to dumb to
figure
out how to do that.) I don't see the point in having an administrator
account
where another administrator can change your password and log on as you.
Thanks, any help appeciated.





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