User Accounts

[Maniacal]

With windows XP there seems to be only two kinds of accounts, Administrator and Limited, however Limited isn't very useful unless it's for like say Kids, and Administrator is too poweraful as me and my mom are thinking of limimting my mom's boyfriend's daugter's acconut on my mom's computer as she keeps messing something up (eg. the start bar, re-installed the webcam despite that fact it causes problems). She knows how to do pretty much the common knowledge stuff as well as she figured out how to restore the computer (which we don't want her doing) but thinks she knows more than she does. Anyways, we were wondering if there is a way to limit her acconud but not use the limited account.

Note: She won't be using the computer for a couple of weeks probably at least maybe. That's my guess.

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In case the above is confusing, summary:
I want to know if there is a way to limit her account powers without changing her account to a limited one

 

[Dida]

there is this thing called power user right? they are in between administrator and guess?
if you want precise control, might you need a domain controller.

 

[Maniacal]

Nope, never heard or seen Power User. No idea what a domain controller is, but I guess it has somethnig to do with controlling your computer privelidges/access.

 

[bhsup]

XP stupidly removed those intermediate levels with the Home version (and Pro version if not connecting to a domain). You're stuck with Administrator or Limited, sorry.

It's one huge gripe I have with XP.

 

[Maniacal]

Humanity -1

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[Speedo]

That's just one of the castrations you get with XP Home.

For most purposes though a limited account should work. The only catch (usually) is if you have a piece of software that requires admin rights to run. With XP Pro there are some creative solutions to get around that, but with XP Home you're SOL.

 

[Chairman Meow]

That's just one of the castrations you get with XP Home.

For most purposes though a limited account should work. The only catch (usually) is if you have a piece of software that requires admin rights to run. With XP Pro there are some creative solutions to get around that, but with XP Home you're SOL.

Does XP Home have RunAs? I've only ever used XP Pro, so I'm not sure if that could potentially be useful in this case.

 

[Speedo]

I have no idea, but I kinda doubt it. I've never tried to use it on XP Home.

I don't think it would be extremely useful though. To use it (in a limited account) to run a program that requires admin rights means you need to run as an admin level account... and if you give the person access to that there isn't a lot of point in making them a limited user to begin with.

When you have a program in XP Pro that's refusing to run as a user, you can usually get around it by giving the user full control of the folders and/or registry keys for that program... can't do that in Home though.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I have no idea, but I kinda doubt it. I've never tried to use it on XP Home.

I don't think it would be extremely useful though. To use it (in a limited account) to run a program that requires admin rights means you need to run as an admin level account... and if you give the person access to that there isn't a lot of point in making them a limited user to begin with.

Ah... I had forgotten that detail. Too bad there isn't anything like sudo in Windows.

 

[Maniacal]

You would think XP Home WOULD have the intermedite.