Re: new administrator profile

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"Arnold" <Arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My apologies for not being specific enough. When I refer to a profile I
mean
the group of folders under Documents & Settings.

I meant the same thing. You can, in fact, delete any of these folders
and none of the access permissions will change (although you will
lose some files . . .).

The origional Administrator
profile, or group of folders would be "where I was" when I logged on as
Administrator, the power user group of folders would be where I'd be if I
logged on as "Dad". There are two other sets of folders for my children,
who
seldom use this machine, as well as the All Users set. Under the power
user
(Dad) set I had many freedoms to allow for normal work. If I logged on as
Administrator, I was free to do anything. Now there is an additional
profile,
set of folders called Administrator-Dad. This is the only "Administrator"
area I can now log onto & it is totally restricted. I can not even change
the
desktop, or the mouse click from two clicks to one. Nothing is available.

This pretty much what I expected. Even though "Administrator-Dad" has
the word "Administrator" in it, he is not an Administrator. Just because
I call myself President of the USA does not mean there is a place for
me in the White House. Run the command I gave you in my first reply
and see for yourself!

Within the power user area (Dad), I can perform normal work in everyday
applications such as Outlook, Word, etc. However, if I try to install a
program, I cannot do it, even using "Run As". The Registry is unalterable.
Each group membership reads as you would expect, Administrator having full
rights, Power Users having semi-limited rights, &, of course, normal Users
having very limited rights. The restrictions referred to extend seemingly
to
all areas of the computer, including the Control Panel. Most
Administrative
Tools are unavailable in Control Panel even when logged in as
Administrator.

I refer to the group of folders only because it more clearly illustrates
what one can log on as. But, as I've mentioned, each group of folders is
properly identified under Users & Passwords & shows the proper rights for
that user. Just that now there is another Administrator showing the proper
rights, just not being able to exercise them.

I hope I have described this more clearly. Thank you for your
consideration.

You must log on as Administrator, then grant the required rights to
"Administrator-Dad". Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del twice at the logon screen
gives you an opportunity to enter "Administrator" as a logon name, with
the appropriate password.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Arnold" <Arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Win2KPro OS

A new administrator profile was created, how or why I don't know. The
old
profile is still under documents & settings, but is unusable. In that,
I
mean, you cannot run under that profile or change it in any way. The
new
administrator profile does not allow any alteration whatsoever to
itself.
It
does not allow new programs to be installed either. Simply put, the
new
administrator profile gives you no administrator privileges at all.
The
registry can not be changed or updated. When under my normal profile,
that
of
a power user, I have no administrative priviledges. Again, cannot
install
programs or do anything to alter the system.

Can anyone be of service in this matter?

There appears to be some misunderstanding here. A account "profile"
is a folder that holds a number of files (e.g. My Documents) and
settings
(e.g. for Outlook or Internet Explorer). It does NOT give you any
privileges - these are assigned based on your group membership.

In your post you keep talking about profile folders but you don't say
anything about the important questions:
- What account do you use when logging on?
- What groups does it belong to?

You can answer the second question by examining the account
profile in detail, or by doing this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
- Type this command:
net user "%UserName%" {Enter}





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