RE: Admin account vs personal/limited account in win xp

1. By default, the owning account is the account which created the
folder/file, however any account which is a member of the administrators
group can take ownership of the folder.

2. Pretty much. An admin can't open a file that has been encrypted though
(NTFS only)

3. You don't need to delete the file. Your initial problem is that, by
defualt, Limited Accounts in Windows XP do not have sufficient privileges to
install any applications to the local computer, hence it prompts you for an
administrator's account and password. However, administrator accounts don't
have this restriction, so can quite happily install any application
downloaded by any account on your PC.

Hope that helps a little.

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