Limited User Problem

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Bill

Hi!

On my grand daughters PC I set up her mother as Administrator and
down-graded her to limited user. Now a very strange thing happens.
When you log on as the 'user' there are screen messages about illegal
software and need to activate. If mom logs on with her Administrator
permissions there is no problem.

This all happened when I updated the latest security releases and I
think I was logged on a my grand daughter in order to get the
wireless WPA code changed.

As far as I can tell she should be able to continue using the machine
and just ignore the dire warnings and 'reactivate' stuff that occur.

Anyone run into this? Google and MS searches have turned up nothing of
help and I have a problem request into MS.

BTW this is MS XP Home with all the service packs installed...

Bill
Atlanta
 
Bill said:
Hi!

On my grand daughters PC I set up her mother as Administrator and
down-graded her to limited user. Now a very strange thing happens.
When you log on as the 'user' there are screen messages about illegal
software and need to activate. If mom logs on with her Administrator
permissions there is no problem.

This all happened when I updated the latest security releases and I
think I was logged on a my grand daughter in order to get the
wireless WPA code changed.

As far as I can tell she should be able to continue using the machine
and just ignore the dire warnings and 'reactivate' stuff that occur.

Anyone run into this? Google and MS searches have turned up nothing of
help and I have a problem request into MS.

BTW this is MS XP Home with all the service packs installed...

Bill
Atlanta
Click to expand...

It is likely that your granddaughter now has insufficient access rights
to some folders in c:\program files or to some registry branches.
Since you did not report which programs generate the error messages
it is difficult to be more specific.
 
It is likely that your granddaughter now has insufficient access rights
to some folders in c:\program files or to some registry branches.
Since you did not report which programs generate the error messages
it is difficult to be more specific.
Click to expand...

Thanks.
Now either log-in MS Validation simply says that the software is
illegal. Well we know CompUSA cannot sell bogus
software and stay in business long. We were running automatic update
since that was easiest for a kid, and this 'error' did not show up
until the last 'critical' patches were installed.

I have returned the machine to her and reconnected to the home
network. Who knows how I became 'illegal' after installing and
validation over 6 mos. ago. She has assignments to finish and so far
as I can tell the cops are not going to shut her down.

Bill
 
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