XP Home Edition and Limited Access issue.

[Guest]

Until recently my computer was not downloading or installing Windows Updates
and in the process of finally finding the solution (in these threads) I have
apparently messed up my daughter’s and my son’s access to my computer. I use
Windows XP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4500 and they both have limited
access logons. Since I fixed this issue they are now unable to logon. Even if
I use Start->Run and "control userpasswords2" and reset their passwords to
new passwords that we all know (or even none at all), they still cannot
logon. The computer always responds with the message "Did you forget your
password?". If I make their accounts administrator accounts everything is OK
again. All I was doing prior to all this (as far as I can recall was making
changes to "msconfig", but I do not believe anything could have been left in
a state to cause this if in the "General" tab the "Normal Startup" radio
button is checked - or am I mistaken?). Even if I create new limited access
accounts the results are the same, so it is all related to the access type of
the account.

Obviously I do not want to leave them with Administrator priviledges for any
length of time but for now when they need to do homework I am having to do so.

The only other thing that may have a bearing is that I have also been trying
to setup set up two computers on a workgroup on a wireless network.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have been struggling with this for
about a week and a half.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

That is a strange one. Offhand I don't know what the problem is but use
Event Viewer to look in the security log to see if any logon failures are
recorded at the time they try to logon and if so see if the logon failure
has an explanation of why the logon failed. If you have not done so lately
be sure to run a full virus scan on your computer in regular and Safe Mode
to see if anything is found and being sure to use the latest updates from
the publisher of your anti virus program. It almost sounds like regular
users do not have the user right to logon locally but when that is the case
usually they are told such at logon - at least for XP Pro. There is a free
tool called dumpsec from SomarSoft that you can use to dump user rights for
your computer if you want to check the user right for logon locally and deny
logon locally. -- Steve

http://www.somarsoft.com/ --- Dumpsec