Can't change time on XP Home

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XP Home (media center edition to be specific) with three users:
administrator (never used) and two individual accounts, both set with
administrator access.

One of the two user accounts has no issues. The other has all kinds of
restrictions set against the account: can't change the time, can't change
the resolution, can't open properties on My Computer... all of these actions
prompt a message along the lines of "the requested operation can not be
completed because of a policy restriction" (not an exact quote, I am not in
front of that computer at the moment - the gist is that the account is not
recognized as an administrator but seems to be stuck as a restricted user).

This is XP home so there are no domain policies. I have switched the user
from admin to restricted user and back again (rebooting after each change)
using both the other user account and the built in admin account. Searching
for the error message returns hits that are either about:

a) spyware (repeatedly scanned, nothing detected)
b) domain policies (not applicable)
c) IE explorer zone settings (irrelevant since the errors have nothing to do
with IE)

Can anybody shed some light on this situation?

Thanks
 
Wowbagger said:
XP Home (media center edition to be specific) with three users:
administrator (never used) and two individual accounts, both set with
administrator access.

One of the two user accounts has no issues. The other has all kinds of
restrictions set against the account: can't change the time, can't change
the resolution, can't open properties on My Computer... all of these
actions prompt a message along the lines of "the requested operation can
not be completed because of a policy restriction" (not an exact quote, I
am not in front of that computer at the moment - the gist is that the
account is not recognized as an administrator but seems to be stuck as a
restricted user).

This is XP home so there are no domain policies. I have switched the user
from admin to restricted user and back again (rebooting after each change)
using both the other user account and the built in admin account.
Searching for the error message returns hits that are either about:

a) spyware (repeatedly scanned, nothing detected)
b) domain policies (not applicable)
c) IE explorer zone settings (irrelevant since the errors have nothing to
do with IE)

Can anybody shed some light on this situation?

Thanks

With regards to the time, see here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/02/11/371474.aspx

The "Local Security Settings" the post refers to is "secpol.msc"
(Start->Run, "secpol.msc" as admin) which you can use to modify various
security policies for users.

You may be able to the same tool to modify settings for resolution etc.

Mike
 
Please correct me if I am wrong.....

It is my understanding that XP Media Center Edition is more akin to XP Pro
and NOT XP Home.
If it is MCE2005 then there are no provisions for joining a domain. MCE2004
has the ability to join a domain, and both have group policy capabilities.
 
Wowbagger said:
I'll give that a try as last resort... on windows media center how does one
assign a user to the administrator group - without going through users on
the control panel?

I would think that Start | Run | Control Userpasswords2 would work. Or
ask in a media center newsgroup. Here is a list of all MS newsgroups:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm
 
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