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Re: Trying again - Windows XP Pro "Security/User Setup" Question(s)

Chuck, I believe computer administrator is the same as in Win2K Pro - is a member of the Administrators group - all power. You can see this better if you go to My Computer, right-click to get context menu, then select "Manage". In there you can go to Local Users and Groups" - something like that - click on Group and see the descriptions.

Limited seems to put the person in the "Users" group, not the "Power Users" group.

I have to say that I wish MS had not made things "easier" for us - I would never advise using the Network so-called wizard - do it the "hard" way, as we are used to doing.

If you want to add users, go to "Manage" and the item I spoke of above and add them there - you can decide there which groups to put them into.

HTH a little.
Vern

At 02:36 PM 10/4/2004, you wrote: 
Hi Folks,

Originally posted this a week ago and didnâ??t get any feedback so Iâ??ll try again â?º

JUST starting to get PC's in with Windows XP Pro. We have a mix, but the majority of PC's currently are W2K Pro. In that you have the Administrator account and then you can obviously create a User account and have as
choices:

Standard

Restricted

Other

And you can pretty well "tailor" things within those.

In XP Pro you set the "boot" Administrator/password and the have to setup up a PC "Administrator" and then can create a "User" account. And when you do this you get:

Computer administrator

Limited

So what is the correlation between W2K Pro and XP Pro ?

I'm "thinking" the Computer administrator on XP Pro is not near as powerful as the Administrator on W2K Pro - is that correct ? They even say that if stuff won't run, etc. as Limited then choose Computer administrator.

So maybe I am thinking of XP Pro in the wrong light - Administrator on W2K Pro is the "boot" Administrator on XP Pro and then the "regular user" on W2K Pro is the Computer Administrator on XP Pro ?

Thanks for any help !

Chuck



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