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Chuck,

The naming conventions used by Microsoft can be confusing, but to my 
knowledge, a Win2K Administrator is fully equivalent to a WinXP 
Administrator.
Also, the "boot" Administrator is simply the account named "Administrator" 
found on other windows NT based machines (NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003).

By default, Windows XP creates new accounts as either User or 
Administrator rights.  Microsoft dummied down the interface in an effort 
to simplify these tasks for home users. Just to clarify, XP now requires 
you to explicitly define an Administrator account during installation, but 
ANY user account with administrative rights has administrative 
capabilities.  To my knowledge the relationships are as follows:

Window 2000   => Windows XP
---------------------------------
Administrator => Administrator
Power User    => Standard User
User          => Restricted User


On Windows XP Pro, you can see some of this in the control panel using the 
classic mode on the "User Accounts" application.



Hope that Helps,


Keith Blazek
MIS Coordinator



"Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 10/04/2004 03:36:14 PM:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Originally posted this a week ago and didnât get any feedback so Iâ
> ll try again â
> 
> 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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