Thanks Bill,
You are correct, this is SP home. Thanks for all the info so quickly.
Mark
"Bill Sanderson" wrote:
> Great. I believe that I've seen the lack of visual feedback that the change
> has been accepted remarked on before. That's another thing that I believe
> will be fixed in beta2, but I don't know for certain.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that you are talking about XP Home? XP Home has a
> slightly modified security model which makes it a little different from XP
> Professional with regard to the Administrator account. By default, the first
> account created as the OS is installed (which is usually done by the OEM or
> vendor)--is Administrator, and the password is left null---no password.
>
> So why is this secure? The Administrator account can only be accessed in
> Safe mode--and--an account with no password cannot by default access things
> across a network.
>
> So the short answer is if you are on XP Home, and need THE administrator
> account, you must restart in safe mode. So my advice was probably poorly
> worded. There are some differences in functionality between the condition of
> being logged in with THE administrator account, and "an" administrator. I
> can't list them all, though--there's a difference in the ability to use
> certain networking features--raw sockets--and a difference in the ability to
> set permissions on objects in the filesystem.
>
> If you are not on XP Home, I'm not sure if the administrator account is
> listed if there is only one named account on the machine, and that is an
> administrator. If this is the case, you hit CTRL ALT Delete on the login
> screen, and I think you then get a box to enter a name directly (i.e.
> administrator.)
>
> "Mark" wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> > That seems to work, thank you. But when you go into MSAS, click on advanced
> > tools, click on system explorers, IE settings, highlight the start page and
> > click on save these settings as the default, it doesn't show up that it saved
> > them. Then if you log off the machine and log back in, it shows up with the
> > setting as I saved them. So there is a glich in how it displays the saving
> > of default settings. Just curious, when you have set up an XP machine to show
> > the various users on the log in page and have quick user switching on, how do
> > you log into the administrator account and what is the default password? (You
> > had asked me to do this earlier and I just logged in as me since I am set up
> > as an administrator and temproraly changed the status of the accounts that
> > were having the pop out issue to full instead of restricted)
> >
> > "Bill Sanderson" wrote:
> >
> > > The restricted account is the issue.
> > >
> > > Log in as an administrator, and use the tools, advanced tools, browser
> > > hijack settings to put in your desired home page and search settings. The
> > > defaults are not chosen by Microsoft Antispyware, per se--but are the
> > > defaults for Windows as installed--on an OEM machine, for example, these may
> > > be an OEM home page.
> > >
> > > There's a wizard which should appear early in the use of Microsoft
> > > Antispyware to allow you to change these settings.
> > >
> > > Even after you have made this change, running as a limited user may still
> > > result in unexpected messages from Microsoft Antispyware, and inability to
> > > perform some functions, perhaps definition updates.
> > >
> > > This should change, or at least be clearly documented, with beta2, before
> > > the end of this year.
> > >
> > > "Mark" wrote:
> > >
> > > > The default start page in the MS antispyware is the msn site. When I change
> > > > it to my normal start page, i get a warning everytime that I have changed my
> > > > start page and do I want to allow it. When I go into ms antispyware and
> > > > change it there, it continues to put it back to msn's start page. I am
> > > > running win xp sp2 and this is a restricted account so I am wondering if it
> > > > is ms antispyware that is blocking the change or the fact that it is a
> > > > restricted account. Can anyone give me an answer on this one?
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