XP Admin (root) accounts

likwid · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:02

Hi

Recently installing windows from afresh, i'd like to have only the default "Administrator" user account which i'll use to install software, updates etc, and otherwise use a limited account for everything else. I don't see the point in having a secondary admin account - a prerequisite to creating limited accounts - so wondered if there's a way around this.

Thanks in advance!

Trigger · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:08

Are you using XP home or pro?

likwid · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:15

I'm using xp pro.

csmager · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:57

So what exactly is the problem then?

Login as admin, change your user account to limited. Job done.

If it won't let you do that (can't see why not), delete it and recreate a new limited user account.

likwid · 8 Aug 2006 at 14:35

But as i already said, a secondary admin account is prerequisite to creating limited accounts. This prevents me from either:

- creating new limited user accounts
- changing admin accounts to limited accounts
- deleting admin accounts

where no (other) secondary admin account exists.

csmager · 8 Aug 2006 at 14:36

Doesn't seem to on mine.

Are you using control usepasswords2?

EDIT: Actually, just tried again... got some sort of error. Maybe not...(!)