Re: Out of control multiple Administrators

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:07:18 +0000

kseidman wrote:

>I am the only user on an XP Home Edition computer. Control Panel|User Accounts indicates that I am the only Administrator. However, when I boot up in Safe Mode, another Administrator called Foxfire appears. (Foxfire is the name of my computer). I don't know if this is normal?
>
>The PROBLEM is that sometimes (don't know why or when this will happen) when I create or move folders (e.g. by dragging a folder from my second hard drive to my C drive) this other administrator (Foxfire) is the only one with access to it. In normal XP bootup mode I cannot access, or delete these "Foxfire" owned folders. I recently discovered that if I am in Safe Mode I can change the owner to me (kseidman, Administrator) and then when I go back to normal mode, I can access and delete these folders.

As well as your regular user admin account there is a reserve one for
emergencies, that only shows up in a Safe Mode boot. That is normal: I
have not p[reviously heard of it being given any name other than
'Administrator' though 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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