Re: Users

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From: suyao (suyaom.net_at_163.com.discuss)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:49:16 +0800

Administrator is an default account which the system created for management
tasks, Owner is an account that you created aftre you first logon to XP. 

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"Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote in message 
news:ecODxOHIEHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
|I never quite understood the difference between Administrator and Owner.
|
| When I look in ControlPanel/UserAccounts all I have is 2 accounts (one for
| me one for my wife)
|
| But in Windows Explorer there are also Administrator and Owner folders. 
Why
| is that?
|
| Thank you
|
|

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