Re: Removing Programs
- From: "Joe McGuire" <mcguirejw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:01:27 -0500
Amen!
"bxf" <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Andrew Murray wrote:
>> "administrator" is the built-in user account in XP.
>>
>> The message is saying you must have admin priviledges to uninstall the
>> program. WHen you installed XP it should have asked you to create a user
>> account, which I think gives you admin rights to start with, unless you
>> otherwise specify.
>>
>> In effect *you* are the Administrator of *your* computer when using a
>> user
>> account with admin rights. The default "administrator" is for
>> 'emergencies'
>> rather than every day use eg if you forget a password, the
>> 'administrator'
>> account can be used to reset the other user's accounts, passwords etc.
>
> Nice explanation, but I suspect that Joe's real problem is that, given
> that "in something called User Accounts she is identified as the
> Computer Administrator", why is the stupid message appearing? :-)
>
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