Re: Password on shutdown

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:11:10 -0800

Lost on most occasions wrote:

> I'm not sure if I can change this or why it happens but...Iapplied
> password settings to the accounts on my system. I did this in order to
> limit a twelve year olds access. Now I have to type the password at
> shutdown or it won't turn off. How do I change this???

XP Home or Pro? If Pro, did you use Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to
set the password policies? Did you also limit what users could shutdown
the machine?

Malke 

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