Re: Continue to "administrator "access denied" error

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"Mike" wrote

OS: XP home pkg 2

I need a little bit more clearity to my 11/14/06 question "administrator
"access denied" error". I must of ended the link by closing or rating the
response.

First I did tried to do my homework in searching through the questions and
replies about "system administrator" so I have a sort of low level
understanding of it, why it is there and the purpose of it is a mystery.

My main goal is to be able to access and apply the System Config
Utility>Startup. I want to minimize the number of startup programs thereby
reducing memory. Andrew E. gave me a good reply that there's actually a
System Admin in addition to mine that I can see in Safe Mode bootup and that
I can make changes there. Well I've tried Safe Mode and I can not make
changes to the system config startup as either myself or the system admin (of
course) so I don't understand what I can change to allow myself to have admin
authority without conflicting with the system admin. So any ideas to get
around system admin and why in the h#$% is it there. Maybe there is another
way to get minimize startup programs too.

The built in "Administrator" account is there as a fall back in case something damages the normal working account. It should not be used for normal operations. You should create at least one account with Administrator level privileges and use that one for when Admin privileges are needed. Create another working account as a limited user and use that one for normal use.

You don't need to login to the built in Administrator account to manage startup programs. Any account with admin privileges will do.







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