XP hell

[K8y]

My girlfriend bought a new computer with XP home installed and when her
8-year old son booted it up, he installed himself as the administrator.
While this did not initially cause a problem since she knew his password it
was no big deal.
Now she wants to have him removed as the administrator to not allow him
access to everything in the world.
I used the F8 option to safe mode and created her as a password
administrator but didn't remove him.
The big problem is that now neither of them is allowed to set sharing of
anything...and even the printer won't work without being shared.

I thought I was pretty literate having only used Win98 until this time but
I'm only creating a bigger hole in the learning curve.

anyone help me.
Can I remove her as an administrator, leaving only the son and then change
his password to not allow him total access and will this remove the problems
of sharing if there is only one administrator on the machine?

Thanks

Reggie

 

[Jack Seredyniecki]

You can have as many admins as you want. That's not the problem. XP is a
completely different animal from Win 95, 98 and ME.

 

[Roger Abell]

I think you have a couple of different , independent things
going on.
One, the multiple accounts - which should be totally
possible, having multiple admin accounts. It should
also be possible to then change the son's account to
being limited.
The other is the access issues. This could have been
caused by something you, or the son, did - but I doubt
it is the result of having multiple admin accounts.
Perhaps if you address the specifics of the access
problems in a new thread someone can get you going
on resolving that.