Re: XP Home edition - Administrator permissions

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Hi David,

David B wrote:
I bought a second hand PC that came with XP Home loaded with a
"People" profile on it. I have added other user profiles on -
including one as as administrator and renamed the People account as
another - and used that to load up various suites of software. I have
not been able to find any utility that will do this change for me -
even though I would have expected it to be a common need!

I have noticed that XP continues to physically file everything under
the People folder in Documents & Settings even though the username
had been changed - so, to be tidy, I have backed up the People
folder, created a new administrator logon & deleted the renamed
people "People" account account today. I have restored the files from
the people folder into the various subfolders they were in under the
new admin account.

That is correct, changing the name of an account is comedic. Creating an
new account is the preferred method.

How to rename or move a User Profile folder?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm

Most programs are now working. One or two are not - and one tells me
that my user account for windows was created with restricted access
to system resources. It advises me to see my system administrator to
be granted standard user rights.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Installing software in Windows XP
http://www.rickrogers.org/xpsware.htm

I have tried uninstalling & reinstalling the program. It has made no
difference. checked and the new userid is certainly an administrator
account. How do I fix this problem? I am running XP Home with SP2
installed. All updates are up to date.

I would be really grateful for some advice how to resolve this.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org


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