Security tab, Users and Administrators

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I am trying to keep limited users on my computer from accessing certain
programs. In safe mode, I right click the program exe file, select
properties and then the security tab. I click the 'users' group and check
'deny.' This stops them from having access but it also stops me (computer
administrator) from having access. I don't know how to fix this, I am
clearly listed as belonging to the 'administrator's' group.

Thank you,
 
Ed H said:
I am trying to keep limited users on my computer from accessing certain
programs. In safe mode, I right click the program exe file, select
properties and then the security tab. I click the 'users' group and check
'deny.' This stops them from having access but it also stops me (computer
administrator) from having access. I don't know how to fix this, I am
clearly listed as belonging to the 'administrator's' group.

Thank you,
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You appear to be using an OEM version (Dell) of XP-Home.

You could install the full retail version of XP-Pro over the existing
version of XP-Home that you now use. You can then manage other type of
accounts instead of just the administrator and limited users accounts and
you can also apply group and/or individual user privileges to individual
folders and files. You can not get this granularity in security from
XP-Home. Note that the retail XP-Pro version that you buy must be a full
retail version, not an upgrade retail version (because you usually can not
upgrade an OEM version of XP with a retail upgrade version of XP-Pro, and
trying to do otherwise or trying to install from a CD that was registered to
another computer will probably just end you up being locked out from using
the computer at all). Read the XP box carefully before you buy.
 
Ed H said:
I am trying to keep limited users on my computer from accessing certain
programs. In safe mode, I right click the program exe file, select
properties and then the security tab. I click the 'users' group and check
'deny.' This stops them from having access but it also stops me (computer
administrator) from having access. I don't know how to fix this, I am
clearly listed as belonging to the 'administrator's' group.

Thank you,
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If you go to the Advanced button on the Security tab, under the Permissions
tab you can add individual Users to the list and then deny individual users
rather than the whole group.

HTH
 
Hi, Ed

That got me interested, so I too called Dell about this for a clarification.
They do sell an *OEM* version (as you said, "their OEM version") that will
upgrade your current OEM XP-Home computer to XP-Pro, for $200. I think
that's a very good price. I still think that you need to get that particular
"OEM upgrade" only from Dell, and if you try to apply the *retail* upgrade
version of XP-Pro then it will not work and you might loose all ability to
use the computer and then have to restore it to original condition. And I
still think that the *full* retail version of XP-Pro will install over top
of the OEM version of either XP-Home or XP-Pro. But I also think Dell's
"upgrade" offer is cheaper than the retail solution (a purchase of the full
retail XP-Pro). Maybe someone else has some more info about this sort of
thing. I'd hate to see you or someone else who reads this thread
misunderstand and thereby get stuck with an open package of expensive retail
software that maybe can not be returned along with a computer that is locked
out because it had an OEM version of XP on it ...
 
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