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I cannot log on to Internet Explorer as a limited user or guest acct. The admin acct logs on ok. I do not want to change all accounts to admin users. What can I do?
 
I have the same problem. I've noticed you can change the account to admin, logon to that account, start Internet Explorer, then go and change the account back to limited. Internet Explorer will work until the next reboot, so if you just restart weekly this will serve as a somewhat painful workaround until Microsoft fixes this.
 
Mozilla works well under "limited" accounts.

jwarner said:
I have the same problem. I've noticed you can change the account to
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admin, logon to that account, start Internet Explorer, then go and change
the account back to limited. Internet Explorer will work until the next
reboot, so if you just restart weekly this will serve as a somewhat painful
workaround until Microsoft fixes this.
 
This is interesting as this must be a new "feature" from Microsoft with WinXP home edition. I had all of my kids as limited accounts on our family PC. It has been working fine for about 8 months. They were able to surf the web with no issues. It appears to have stopped around the beginning of this year. Does anyone know if this has been reported to Microsoft? I don't see anything in the knowledgebase.

I've also noticed that just about any other microsoft utility won't run either on a limited account anymore. I've tried to look at My Documents, use Windows Explorer, and other utilities and none work. The hourglass appears for 10 seconds then disappears. If I look at task manager, I see IExplorer for 30 seconds or so then it disappears (after clicking on Internet Explorer). I'm guessing a hotfix has caused this problem. If anyone has any ideas (outside of giving everyone admin privileges), I would be very grateful!



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I cannot log on to Internet Explorer as a limited user or guest acct. The admin acct logs on ok. I do not want to change all accounts to admin users. What can I do?
 
LenC said:
This is interesting as this must be a new "feature" from Microsoft
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with WinXP home edition. I had all of my kids as limited accounts on
our family PC. It has been working fine for about 8 months. They were
able to surf the web with no issues. It appears to have stopped around
the beginning of this year. Does anyone know if this has been
reported to Microsoft? I don't see anything in the knowledgebase.
I've also noticed that just about any other microsoft utility won't
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run either on a limited account anymore. I've tried to look at My
Documents, use Windows Explorer, and other utilities and none work.
The hourglass appears for 10 seconds then disappears. If I look at
task manager, I see IExplorer for 30 seconds or so then it disappears
(after clicking on Internet Explorer). I'm guessing a hotfix has
caused this problem. If anyone has any ideas (outside of giving
everyone admin privileges), I would be very grateful!
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I cannot log on to Internet Explorer as a limited user or guest acct. > The admin acct logs on ok. I do not want to change all accounts to admin
users. What can I do?
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You might want to check for a problem browser helper object. I use
Windows XP Professional using one administrator account and two
limited user accounts (LUA). The LUA have been unable to run Internet
Explorer 6 (IE6), but can run Netscape 7.1. Although the LUA can reach
a web site, they can only reach top level sites. For example, they can
reach http://www.yahoo.com, but they cannot reach
http://www.yahoo.com/r/ml . Whenever they click on a link on the top
level web page, absolutely nothing happens. No info is being sent.
I saw a posting in which Microsoft noted a similar problem when
certain browser helper objects (BHO) are installed on your computer.
The BHO tries to modify certain system files and Windows Registry
entries that require administrative credentials to access. As a
result, when the BHO cannot access these files and registry entries,
Internet Explorer stops abruptly.
I have three BHO on my computer, one for the Adobe Acrobat reader,
one for Norton Antivirus and one for Star Downloader (SDIEInt.dll).
When I disabled all three BHO, the LUA could run IE6. When only the
Star Downloader BHO was disabled, everything still ran fine, but when
I enabled the Star Downloader BHO, the LUA couldn't run IE6.
The simplest way to disable an unwanted BHO is to go to
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/ and download the free 127 kb
BHODemon 1.0 that lets you monitor and disable "Browser Helper
Objects". In my case, I can still use Star Downloader the way I always
have, even though its BHO has been disabled.
 
i have exactly the same problem. When i start iexplore wit run as and then, use administratorlogon it works fine.
 
i have that same problem, i've tried everything i can think of to fix it but i can't get it to work.... anyideas????
 
Dear Len
I fully agree with your observations. I am just a daily "experienced" user, but my wife and child roamed the internet as LUA's until a couple of months ago. My wife can use Outlook for email (still works but slowly), other programs don't function. I see a lot of other people having similar experience. How do you get MS's attention? I have found no solution.
Rgds, Jens
 
Assuming we are (were) all having the same problem in XP, this is how I resolved the issue when my daughter could not log on as a limited user.

Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs>Set Program access and defaults>Custom

Hightlight all buttons on the "use my current" listing and enable all the choices.

OP
I cannot log on to Internet Explorer as a limited user or guest acct. The admin acct logs on ok. I do not want to change all accounts to admin users. What can I do?



Good luck
 
Assuming we are (were) all having the same problem in XP, this is how I resolved the issue when my daughter could not log on as a limited user.

Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs>Set Program access and defaults>Custom

Hightlight all buttons on the "use my current" listing and enable all the choices.

OP
I cannot log on to Internet Explorer as a limited user or guest acct. The admin acct logs on ok. I do not want to change all accounts to admin users. What can I do?
 
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