Re: Types of Accounts.

You need two accounts. You setup a second account which only has 'user' permission. You log on with this account for normal daily use.
You will have the first account defined as an administrator, and only used when you want to do admin functions like install programs.

You will have two accounts, therefore you will get the welcome screen asking which account you want to login with when you boot up.

Barbara jay wrote:
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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