Administrator Desktop Access

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Paul J. Perillo

This is a message I sent on 5-7 which has disappeared:
"On my Emachine when I try to logon to the Administrator desktop, I get the
box, '...could not logon to the Administrator desktop because of certain
restrictions. I cannot get an answer from Emachines."
I need an answer to this question and to know why my original posting was
deleted.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,

If you are using XP Home, the administrator account is only available in
Safe mode once a user account with that level of privileges is created.

Why did your post get deleted? Who knows, could be a server reset,
corruption, etc.....few posts are intentionally deleted, generally only
those identified as spam.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Paul said:
This is a message I sent on 5-7 which has disappeared:
Click to expand...

I need an answer to this question and to know why my original posting
was deleted.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...


I know your original question has been answered, but I thought you would
also want to know that your 5/7/2006 message is still on the server.

You either have OE set to "Hide Read Messages" or in
"Tools-->Options-->Maintenance" you have elected to have your messages
deleted after "x" number of days or you just missed it.

I'm sensitive to the issue of censorship; that's why I went back and
looked.

You were not censored.

rl
 
Thanks for the clue about WINXP Home Ed. That's very disconcerting because I
never dealt with Home Ed. before - I always had WINXP Pro. Now, I feel
ripped off by Bill and co.
 
It's by design, there's no ripping off of anyone. Any admin account in a
WinXP Home system has the same level of system access as "the" administrator
account. It is kept for safe mode only as a fail-safe. Keep in mind that the
"Home" version is designed for people who just need the simplest version of
an operating system for browsing, email, games, and programs designed for
the home, not a production environment. They don't need policy editors,
snap-ins, and complex interfaces for the most part.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I understand - I was only intending to interject some melodrama. The only
real question left is this: if I reduce my accounts all to 'power user' from
'admin' will the Administrator account 'come out?' This would be a very
interesting result to me. I truly did not know how the 'Home' design brought
these limitations. I should have figured. I was a mainframe COBOL
programmer for a few years until the industry disappeared in the early 90s.
 
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