Re: Types of Accounts.

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An administrator account allow you, as administrator, to access all areas.
In other words you can install software, install downloads, make changes to
your computers configuration, add other users and generally do whatever you
want.

A limited account does just that 'limits' what you can do. You give limited
accounts to other users, those people who you don't want to 'tinker' with
your machine. A limited account can prevent people installing software that
you don't want on your pc. The account you had and still have is that of
administrator.

As for the Welcome screen you may find that your HP digital camera required
the .Net framework for it to function correctly. This is offered as an
update by the windows update site, but it is optional. If the HP camera
needed it, then HP added it to the software instructions and it was thus
installed.

You can bypass the Windows log on screen. If yuo visit my website
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click the Win XP Faq button and take a look
at question 98 'how do i bypass the Windows Log on screen'

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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org


"Barbara jay" <BarbaraJay@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:142d01c54ea4$e2f160c0$a601280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>I have used Windows for many years, but I am NOT a very
> sophisticated user. Recently I got an HP digital camera
> and I loaded the HP software and transferred some
> pictures to my computer.
>
> After that, every time the screen-saver came on, there
> was a Welcome screen that had to be clicked to continue.
> After much tribulation, I finally stumbled on how to get
> rid of the Welcome screen when disabling the screen-
> saver. However, the Welcome screen still comes up
> whenever I turn on my computer.
>
> Before I loaded the HP digital camera software, I never
> saw a Welcome screen.
>
> I found it was because I now had a "computer
> administrator". Today, in trying to get rid of
> the "computer administrator", I found out having
> a "computer administrator" makes my computer more
> vulnerable to viruses. I found out there were Limited
> Accounts. I imagine that is what I had before. But,
> when I tried to change from a "computer administrator"
> account to a Limited Account, it said the computer had to
> have an Administrator.
>
> On one screen it advises me not to use a "computer
> administrator" because it makes my computer vulnerable to
> viruses, and on another it says I have to have an
> administrator. I don't have a clue what to do, nor do I
> understand what it is talking about.
>
> Help!!!
>
> Barbara Jay
>


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