Adding local accounts : need help with this...?

[Jeff]

I am trying to determine the most painless way to accomplish this.

We are in the process of setting up multiple local accounts on our XP
machines. One is a admin account with full admin rights, and the other is
an account named for the user, with only Power User rights. Many of the
machines we will be doing this on have one account only, the default
Administrator account, which some users utilize every day.

At first we renamed the default Administrator account to the user name,
rebooted, and their profile was completely wiped out. I had to rebuild
everything from scratch (email setup, shortcuts, etc.). Is there a way to
accomplish what I need without having to do this? I hope I explained this
clearly enough, if not, I'll add details.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I am trying to determine the most painless way to accomplish this.

We are in the process of setting up multiple local accounts on our XP
machines. One is a admin account with full admin rights, and the other
is
an account named for the user, with only Power User rights. Many of the
machines we will be doing this on have one account only, the default
Administrator account, which some users utilize every day.

At first we renamed the default Administrator account to the user name,
rebooted, and their profile was completely wiped out. I had to
rebuild
everything from scratch (email setup, shortcuts, etc.). Is there a way
to
accomplish what I need without having to do this? I hope I explained
this
clearly enough, if not, I'll add details.

You should leave the "Administrator" account alone and you should certainly
not use it for your users and for everyday tasks. To create the extra user
account, you could run this batch file on each machine:

@echo off
set UserName=SomeName
set PW=SomePassword
net user %UserName% %PW% /add
net localgroup "Power Users" %UserName% /add
net user %UserName%