add admin account to existing installtion?

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siggi

Hi all,

a newbie question: Due to my fault, I had to reinstall our Win XP Home
v5.01, "Service Pack 2" from scratch. It works :-), there are now 2 users,
User1 (that's me, the first account I created, with admin rights) and User2
(my wife, restricted rights).

Now I would like to create a third user, "admin" or "Administrator", give
him all rights, and restrict my rights on User1, to be on the safe side for
daily work. When installing new programs and admin tasks, I would use the
admin account.

* Is there anything I should be aware of before creating this administrator
account?

Thank you,

siggi
 
siggi said:
Hi all,

a newbie question: Due to my fault, I had to reinstall our Win XP Home
v5.01, "Service Pack 2" from scratch. It works :-), there are now 2 users,
User1 (that's me, the first account I created, with admin rights) and
User2
(my wife, restricted rights).

Now I would like to create a third user, "admin" or "Administrator", give
him all rights, and restrict my rights on User1, to be on the safe side
for daily work.
When installing new programs and admin tasks, I would use the
admin account.

* Is there anything I should be aware of before creating this
administrator
account?
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No, XP-Home does however create an administrator (restricted name you cannot
use) account with full rights, only accesable through save mode (initially
without password).
Nothing in your way to create account like "Admin" or "Boss" :-).

gtx

Rob
 
RoB de Vries said:
No, XP-Home does however create an administrator (restricted name you
cannot
use) account with full rights, only accesable through save mode (initially
without password).
Nothing in your way to create account like "Admin" or "Boss" :-).

gtx

Rob
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Thanks Rob!

Yesterday I tried to log in with <Strg>+<Alt>+<Del> in the icon menu for
logging-in as user: the simple menu appeared as should, but there is only
one user, User 2 to log in. My own account, User1, does not appear, User 1
is only accessible as icon in the default menu with the user icons. Strange!

You said:
...XP-Home does however create an administrator (restricted name you
cannot
use) account with full rights, only accesable through save mode (initially
without password).
Click to expand...

My question: is it advisable to install programs with this Adminsitrator
account in the safe mode?

gtx

Siggi
 
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