XP Home edition - Administrator permissions

[Guest]

I bought a second hand PC that came with XP Home loaded with a "People"
profile on it. I have added other user profiles on - including one as as
administrator and renamed the People account as another - and used that to
load up various suites of software. I have not been able to find any utility
that will do this change for me - even though I would have expected it to be
a common need!

I have noticed that XP continues to physically file everything under the
People folder in Documents & Settings even though the username had been
changed - so, to be tidy, I have backed up the People folder, created a new
administrator logon & deleted the renamed people "People" account account
today. I have restored the files from the people folder into the various
subfolders they were in under the new admin account.

Most programs are now working. One or two are not - and one tells me that my
user account for windows was created with restricted access to system
resources. It advises me to see my system administrator to be granted
standard user rights.

I have tried uninstalling & reinstalling the program. It has made no
difference. checked and the new userid is certainly an administrator account.
How do I fix this problem? I am running XP Home with SP2 installed. All
updates are up to date.

I would be really grateful for some advice how to resolve this.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi David,

I bought a second hand PC that came with XP Home loaded with a
"People" profile on it. I have added other user profiles on -
including one as as administrator and renamed the People account as
another - and used that to load up various suites of software. I have
not been able to find any utility that will do this change for me -
even though I would have expected it to be a common need!

I have noticed that XP continues to physically file everything under
the People folder in Documents & Settings even though the username
had been changed - so, to be tidy, I have backed up the People
folder, created a new administrator logon & deleted the renamed
people "People" account account today. I have restored the files from
the people folder into the various subfolders they were in under the
new admin account.

That is correct, changing the name of an account is comedic. Creating an
new account is the preferred method.

How to rename or move a User Profile folder?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm

Most programs are now working. One or two are not - and one tells me
that my user account for windows was created with restricted access
to system resources. It advises me to see my system administrator to
be granted standard user rights.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Installing software in Windows XP
http://www.rickrogers.org/xpsware.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bert.

Unfortunately this is only somewhat helpful - maybe because my knowledge of
Windows is too superficial!.

The program I cannot run is Quickbooks 2002. Using the notes, I took
ownership of the Program Files\Intuit and Windows\Intuit folders and asked
that it update the files and subfolders. It appeared to do so but the program
still doesn't work. I have tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. No
good. The install works until it goes to update the registry entries – then
comes up with a florry of errors like “Warning: Registration - .QBWâ€.

The exact message reads "Your user account for Windows was created with
Restricted access to system resources. This will prevent Quickbooks from
operating correctly. Please contact your system administrator and ask him or
her to grant you Standard user rights".

I think my question needs to be, given that I have my user setup as an
administrator already and the folders are owned by me, what is next?. Are
there specific registry files hidden away in other folders somewhere that I
need to discover and validate the ownership on? Are there other tests I can
run that will help identify the cause of these problems?

David

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

I found this article after searching the Intuit Knowledge Base. See if
this helps.

Error: "Your user account for Windows was created with Restricted access
to system resources. This will prevent QuickBooks from operating
properly..."
http://www.quickbooks.com/support/faqs/qbw2002/129407.html

 

[Guest]

It doesn't help Bert because:

(a) I checked their site earlier and had a copy of this document. It speaks
of XP Pro - I am already setup as a administrator in XP Home edition which I
would expect to be equivalent.
(b) I tried doing a reinstall last night in Safe Mode from the Administrator
account to see if it was my user login that was causing the problem ... and
had the same errors occur then.

I think I need to discover what other files I need to check the permissions