Re: Can't make restricted account an admin account

JW Wrote
"JW" <plsreplyto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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it's best to Not change your restricted account to an Admin account.
To do what you want to, try clicking on the program icon with your right
mouse button, select Run As, and then select Administrator. This way, you
can preserve the other restrictions of your restricted account, while
having Admin privileges only for the program that needs it. This also
works when running the installation program while logged into the
restricted account.
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While this will work as long as you Do Not have a password assigned to the
Administartor's account. If that is the case, then what is the purpose?

If you have a password assigned to the Administrator's account, then it will
prompt you for the password when you right click and selct Run As. Either
the administrator will have to enter the password or the guest will have to
know the password to run it. Again what is the purpose?

Different programs act differently with regard to requiring admin rights in
a restricted account.

Check out the following link to help you understand a users access rights
with regard to groups.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/usercpl_overview.mspx

Hope this helps...

Michael Wayne




Hall wrote:
My XP Pro system has 2 user accounts. One is admin, with admin settings,
the other is restricted, without admin settings. The restricted one
can't install software.

Some software seem to only work for the user account if installed by that
account. So to make such a software available for the restricted
account, I need to switch it to an admin type. So I tried that while
logged in as the admin id. But when I switch back to the other id, I
still get the message that I don't have admin privileges.

Is there anything else I need to do to turn a restricted account to an
admin account?

Thx


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