Profile Problem

[Roger Fink]

I just created a new profile in W2K, same machine, for friends who drop by
and basically just need to go on the internet. The profile is password
protected with Power User level status. For some reason, however, I can only
view it by logging into it. I cannot view it in Explorer in either of my two
Administrator level profiles. How can I correct this?

 

[Pegasus]

I just created a new profile in W2K, same machine, for friends who drop by
and basically just need to go on the internet. The profile is password
protected with Power User level status. For some reason, however, I can
only
view it by logging into it. I cannot view it in Explorer in either of my
two
Administrator level profiles. How can I correct this?

You can seize ownership of the two profile folders, then
grant the new user full access. Click Start / Help, then
search for "Ownership" if unsure how to do this.

 

[Roger Fink]

You can seize ownership of the two profile folders, then
grant the new user full access. Click Start / Help, then
search for "Ownership" if unsure how to do this.

I went through the exercise and now I can see the new profile ("user") in
Explorer from either of my two administrator profiles. But I'm not out of
the woods yet. For instance, when I try to set up WMP9 from within "user"
there is nothing to set up because all the file association checks are
hard-wired and it says you must be logged in as Administrator to set the
file associations. But when I go into Administrator and open up WMP9 via the
short cut in the "user" start menu, I still can't set any preferences for
user because it opens the program up with my personal settings from
Administrator. The same is true for Kensington Mouseworks. So I believe the
issue now is, now that I can see "user" from within Administrator how can I
set custom preferences for the programs within "user" that require being
logged in as Administrator?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Promote the user to administrator group, logon as user, make the
adjustments, then demote.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

[Roger Fink]

Well that worked (of course). Thanks very much.

It's nice to have these workarounds but needless to say if this were
typical, the OS wouldn't have stayed around so long. Any idea what I might
have done that got me into this? Obviously, there was an operator error, but
I don't have a clue.

 

[Dave Patrick]

I think it was expected behavior.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244600
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/security/secdefs.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect