RE: Administrator

From: alesioaud (alesioaud_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:59:03 -0700

Hi Penny,

I am having just the opposite problem: Somehow I changed my computer from
home user to adminstrator and now I can't do system restore or anything to
get my home computer back to where it was , I can't ebven download anything
anymore as I have to be an adminstrator maybe you can shed some lite on how
to get out of my mess

"Penny" wrote:

> I have two accounts on my PC and I am the administrator.
> How does downloading programs work? I.E., I want to
> download Adware. If I do that on my account, will it
> apply to the other account as well? When I run it, do I
> have to run it on both accounts? Thanks!
>

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