Re: Help with Accounts/Permissions please


Alex

Log on in Safe Mode as the Administrator ( not your usual Logon ) and this should enable to change all permissions for all other users including your own for day to day use.

Explanation of Safe Mode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Mode

Most computers use the F8 key but there are some variations.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Alex Bell wrote:
Pardon me if the the solution to my problems is available on a help
file somewhere - I have looked but can't find the information I need
anywhere.
The church for which I am webmaster has a new computer running the
latest version of Windows XP. It was supplied with an administrator
account of course, but anyone can work in that account without a
password and several people have been doing that and have made various
data files. We have a dial up connection to the Internet.

We have four main groups who use the computer:
- myself as webmaster and system administrator
- the Finance Team who need access to a couple of finance programs
(MYOB and Excel) and the relevant data files, and who need access to
the dial up connection and a browser (for bank reconciliations) and
to Word and the printer
- the Administration team who need access to Word, pastoral care
software, the dial up connection, Outlook and the browser, and the
printer - guests who need access to Powerpoint and Publisher and the
printer.
I was recently asked to set up accounts and passwords for these
groups. Setting up accounts and passwords was easy. But what I
couldn't do was give each group access/permission to use the various
programs. In fact I as administrator was the only one who had access
to the internet and to the printer. I had to delete all the accounts
and take things back to the way they were.

So can anyone tell me please how to set up accounts with passwords and
differing access to programs as summarised above? Or can anyone point
me please to a help file which will tell me and my successors how to
do this?

.

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