administrator

[martin]

i have 2 acounts on my windows xp, one administrator and
the other limited. I use the admin one and my little
brother uses the limited. Just wandering if any one knew
how the admin could allow the limited acount to do
certain things. I am using Kazaa media desktop to
download music and it works fine on mine but on his it
wonmt let him download anything. He cant download
directly from the internet either. With me being the
admin then i must be able to allow hime to do things,
does anyone know how?

thanks

 

[Guest]

XP help files state that some programs won't run correctly
in XP if the user has a limited account---their solution is
to temporarily change the acct. to admin---kinda defeats
the whole purpose.

 

[martin]

yes i understand that but it is only downloading i want
to allow him to do. There must be a way i can do this

 

[Guest]

Contrary to the popular opinion that "Advanced" file security is only available with WinXP Pro, it is also available with WinXP Home edition as well. Specifically, I am referring to the "Security" tab that is available in XP Pro in the properties menu of any file or folder when "Enable simple file sharing" is unchecked in the Tools>Folder Options>View applet. This "Security" tab is the same as WINNT and WIN2K which allows you to use advanced options for file/folder security that apply to groups and users such as Read,Write, Execute, etc. Although Microsoft claims that this is not available in XP Home it is!

First, NTFS must be your file system, this will not work with a FAT file system. To enable "Advanced" security permissions in XP Home simply boot into safe mode, rt-click any file or folder, and now you will have the "Security" tab - just as in XP Pro! Simply make your changes and reboot into normal mode. This is very useful when you have 'limited' users on your computer and they are unable to run certain applications as a limited user - you can simply boot into safe mode, change the permissions according to each user, and reboot! The advanced tab is even there that will give you even more permission options such as inheritance, etc.