Re: Changing User Group Setting on Local Machine

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From: Lisa (Lisa_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/07/05


Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:03:05 -0800

I have tried all levels. They only one that allows the desktop and office
products to run properly is Administrator.

"Stanley Jones [MSFT]" wrote:

> Maybe I'm not reading the issue properly, but it sounds like you need to
> change them back to Administrators so they can have the privileges you
> mentioned. There are other also other User types in between that may satisfy
> what you want such as Power User
>
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> -Stan
> "Lisa" <Lisa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BD9F9506-D4CD-42AA-B3DB-1EC89BFFEC5E@microsoft.com...
> > Our organization has Windows 2000 servers, with 2000 and XP clients. All
> > clients login to a domain. All users on clients were set up as
> > Administrators. If I change them to Standard Users, desktops change, and
> > programs do not function. Any sugguestions. In the past users could do
> > whatever they wanted to with there machines. I want to prevent that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lisa
>
>
>



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