Setting up new group with Power User capabilities

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I just loaded Windows XP Home on one of my computers. I have Windows XP
Professional on another. I want to set up a group comparable to the XP
Professional Power User Group so I can run legacy applications on the XP
Home computer. I have a Sound Blaster Live card on the XP Home computer and
I cannot run the Play Center application when setting the account to limited
user. Also, the Win TV application does not run correctly on the accounts
setup as limited users. I saw an article on how to set this up but I cannot
remember where I saw it.

I would appreciate it if anyone knows how to do this, or can point me to
reference material so I can set this up.
 
I just loaded Windows XP Home on one of my computers. I have Windows XP
Professional on another. I want to set up a group comparable to the XP
Professional Power User Group so I can run legacy applications on the XP
Home computer. I have a Sound Blaster Live card on the XP Home computer and
I cannot run the Play Center application when setting the account to limited
user. Also, the Win TV application does not run correctly on the accounts
setup as limited users. I saw an article on how to set this up but I cannot
remember where I saw it.

I would appreciate it if anyone knows how to do this, or can point me to
reference material so I can set this up.
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XP Home does not have a power users group. Administrator and Limited are
the only choices for new user accounts.

Check the help file for information on "RunAs." It allows a user to run a
selected program with different credentials.

Also Doug Knox (MVP) has developed an application for administrator use
that might be able to help you accomplish what you want:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
 
Thanks for the reference--I am going to give it a try. It seems that I can
leave the accounts set to administrator status this way so my programs would
run & then just adjust the programs and options for each user. This seems
better than trying to create a group.

I did find an article that showed how to create a group thru the registry
editor & set the security permissions that way. I did setup a Power User
group and then gave it read & write permissions and it seemed to work---I
just don't remember how I did it and I have since reloaded XP so I can't
check. I like Doug's program better though since it seems to give me more
options without messing around in the registry & causing potential problems.

Thanks again!
 
Thanks for the reference--I am going to give it a try. It seems that I can
leave the accounts set to administrator status this way so my programs would
run & then just adjust the programs and options for each user. This seems
better than trying to create a group.

I did find an article that showed how to create a group thru the registry
editor & set the security permissions that way. I did setup a Power User
group and then gave it read & write permissions and it seemed to work---I
just don't remember how I did it and I have since reloaded XP so I can't
check. I like Doug's program better though since it seems to give me more
options without messing around in the registry & causing potential problems.

Thanks again!
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You're welcome. There is a place in XP Home where it looks like you can
create a Power User group (System Properties> User). But the MS Knowledge
Base if fraught with warnings against using it in XP Home.

Doug's program is very nice and fills a great need for XP Home
administrators that want to fine tune a setup for multiple users a little bit.
I'm glad that you have found it to be useful and I'm sure Doug would be
happy about that too.
 
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