System Admin Rights - XP home addition

[Guest]

Hello. I am giving my laptop to my daughter who is in college. It has XP home
addition. I created a new administrator account for her. However, from this
new account, I cannot run system programs such as msconfig. I get an error
that this account does not have system admin privileges.

How can I add system admin rights to her local administration account?

XP Home Edition does not seem to have the Group Policy feature.

Thank you!

 

[Guest]

No, Windows Home Edition does not have Group Policy. It is odd that an admin
account is locking her out of any level of prevlege as it is the highest
level possible for any account and covers ALL system and user rights. I would
try deleting her account, go into safe mode via the hidden admin account and
create another admin account in the User Accounts applet in Control Panel.
Now, you can also try to use a command prompt and access 'control
useraccounts2' without the quote marks. In this program you can change
passwords and assign group membership. Make sure she really does have admin
privleges. I have a pro version and am assumming that home version has access
to control userpasswords2. If not then just go into safe mode and delete the
account and create a new admin account for her. It sounds like somehow a wire
got crossed on the creation of her account. Good luck and have a nice day.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

No, Windows Home Edition does not have Group Policy. It is odd that an
admin
account is locking her out of any level of prevlege as it is the highest
level possible for any account and covers ALL system and user rights. I
would
try deleting her account, go into safe mode via the hidden admin account
and
create another admin account in the User Accounts applet in Control Panel.
Now, you can also try to use a command prompt and access 'control
useraccounts2' without the quote marks. In this program you can change
passwords and assign group membership. Make sure she really does have
admin
privleges. I have a pro version and am assumming that home version has
access
to control userpasswords2. If not then just go into safe mode and delete
the
account and create a new admin account for her. It sounds like somehow a
wire
got crossed on the creation of her account. Good luck and have a nice day.
--
seree


:

control userpasswords2 does work in XP Home.
control useraccounts2 does not work in XP Home.
Mike.