Re: Granting a limited login admin rights

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Instead of switching the account back and forth, simply use the runas
command to use the admin account.

Right click on the program you wish to run and click "run as"

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"Hall" <hall@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My XP has two login ids. One has admin rights (admin type) and the other
does not (limited type).

On occasion I want to make the limited one have admin rights. I would do
this by logging in as admin and changing the limited one to be an admin
type. This doesn't seem to make a difference.

Is there something I should be doing using Local Security Policy?

Thanks!





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