Changing Membership Type

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Hi, I recentlyt tried to change a user account to Standard User (Power Users
Group) when I clicked o.k it came up with an error message saying that the
group name was unavailable then when I tried to logon as that user their name
wasn't on the welcome screen and when I pressed ctrl+alt+del twice and tried
to logon I was logged on as that user but their membership was Guest. The
account only shows up in command prompt with the net user command. It doesn't
show up in User Accounts or the user accounts control panel accesed by typing
control userpasswords2 in Run. Without these I have no idea how to change the
group membership of someone.

Windows Xp Home Service Pack 2.
No Network just a single computer.
Please help! Thanks, Jake.

 

[Nepatsfan]

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Hi, I recentlyt tried to change a user account to Standard
User
(Power Users Group) when I clicked o.k it came up with an
error
message saying that the group name was unavailable then when
I tried
to logon as that user their name wasn't on the welcome screen
and
when I pressed ctrl+alt+del twice and tried to logon I was
logged on
as that user but their membership was Guest. The account only
shows
up in command prompt with the net user command. It doesn't
show up in
User Accounts or the user accounts control panel accesed by
typing
control userpasswords2 in Run. Without these I have no idea
how to
change the group membership of someone.

Windows Xp Home Service Pack 2.
No Network just a single computer.
Please help! Thanks, Jake.

First off, the Power Users group does not exist on an XP Home
Edition system. There are only Limited Users who are members of
the Users group and Computer Administrators who are members of
the Administrators group. Using the User Account applet
accessed through control userpasswords2 to change account
membership is, as you've discovered, a recipe for disaster on
an XP HE computer.

To repair the damage done, do the following;

Log on with an account that is a Computer Administrator.
Open a command prompt window (Start -> Run -> cmd.exe).
Enter the following command where ACCOUNTNAME is replaced with
the name of the account you're trying to recover.

net localgroup users ACCOUNTNAME /add

Hit Enter.
You should see a line stating that the command completed
successfully.
Log off and see if you can now log on with that account from
the Welcome Screen.

Good luck

Nepatsfan