Problem after using control userpasswords2 in XP Home

[Guest]

Prior to discovering that control userpasswords2 should NOT be used on XP
Home to change a user group to Power Users... I tried to do it... it did
indeed give me the error messages below... which I cut from another post...
the user's group was not changed... but now, the user name does not appear in
the list of users in control userpasswords2... it also does not appear in the
list of accounts in User Accounts... the account is still valid and the user
can logon to it... so... is there any way to repair the damage created by
this situation... the user needs to be changed to an administrator but I can
find no way to access the userid to make the change... I could always define
a new account and move thier files... but I will not be able to delete the
old userid or even lock the account if I can't see it.

***** Cut from another post ****
control userpasswords is what should be used with XP Home, *not* control
userpasswords2!

Power Users group are not supported by WinXP Home, so one should not try to
assign such privileges to an existing account, or else errors will appear.
Such as:

[[The user could not be added because the following error has occurred, The
group name could not be found: When creating a new user and make it member
of the 'Power Users' group.]]

[[The group membership for <ComputerName\UserName> could not be updated :
When updating an existing user, adding him to the 'Power Users group'. ]]
**** Cut from another post ****

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Prior to discovering that control userpasswords2 should NOT be used
on XP Home to change a user group to Power Users... I tried to do
it... it did indeed give me the error messages below... which I cut
from another post... the user's group was not changed... but now, the
user name does not appear in the list of users in control
userpasswords2... it also does not appear in the list of accounts in
User Accounts... the account is still valid and the user can logon to
it... so... is there any way to repair the damage created by this
situation... the user needs to be changed to an administrator but I
can find no way to access the userid to make the change... I could
always define a new account and move thier files... but I will not be
able to delete the old userid or even lock the account if I can't see
it.

***** Cut from another post ****
control userpasswords is what should be used with XP Home, *not*
control userpasswords2!

Power Users group are not supported by WinXP Home, so one should not
try to assign such privileges to an existing account, or else errors
will appear. Such as:

[[The user could not be added because the following error has
occurred, The group name could not be found: When creating a new user
and make it member of the 'Power Users' group.]]

[[The group membership for <ComputerName\UserName> could not be
updated : When updating an existing user, adding him to the 'Power
Users group'. ]] **** Cut from another post ****

There is no "Power Users" group in XP home.
As simple as that.

 

[Guest]

Shenan:

Thanks for your response.

I clearly understand that as I hoped to make clear in my post... although my
understanding was not reached until after I tried to make the change to the
user... my problem is that the user name that I attempted to change to a
power user no longer appears in the list of users on this system... I would
happily change them to an administrator user IF they appeared in any list of
users on this system... my reason for posting was to see what might have
caused them to disappear from the list of users and what, if anything, I can
do to get them back on the list of users. Keep in mind that the user is still
a valid user on the system... they can logon... etc.

Ron

Prior to discovering that control userpasswords2 should NOT be used
on XP Home to change a user group to Power Users... I tried to do
it... it did indeed give me the error messages below... which I cut
from another post... the user's group was not changed... but now, the
user name does not appear in the list of users in control
userpasswords2... it also does not appear in the list of accounts in
User Accounts... the account is still valid and the user can logon to
it... so... is there any way to repair the damage created by this
situation... the user needs to be changed to an administrator but I
can find no way to access the userid to make the change... I could
always define a new account and move thier files... but I will not be
able to delete the old userid or even lock the account if I can't see
it.

***** Cut from another post ****
control userpasswords is what should be used with XP Home, *not*
control userpasswords2!

Power Users group are not supported by WinXP Home, so one should not
try to assign such privileges to an existing account, or else errors
will appear. Such as:

[[The user could not be added because the following error has
occurred, The group name could not be found: When creating a new user
and make it member of the 'Power Users' group.]]

[[The group membership for <ComputerName\UserName> could not be
updated : When updating an existing user, adding him to the 'Power
Users group'. ]] **** Cut from another post ****

There is no "Power Users" group in XP home.
As simple as that.

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