On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Bernie Cosell wrote:
This messing with XP/Home is a real experience... I didn't fully
understand just how bad a job MS did with that -- they really did make
having reasonable security essentially impossible: basically, they
managed to take a top-shelf, secure operating system and convert it [as
far as security is concerned] back into W95 because they made it too
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@$# hard to get things set up. [as I've said and Tony will
attest, I'm sure, once you *do* get it set up, it is al really no bother
at all but *getting* there is an unbelievable hassle on XP/Home]
Which is, in a way, why we (Extension computer support) do not
use Home at the office. :)
BTW Tony has been running limited user on Home while you have
been running as (limited) user on Pro. Tony most likely has
quite a bit of this covered already.
BTW2 use an account that has admin privilege to set the
Administrator account password. It will complain and show some
dire warnings about losing this and that for that account.
Since you have not used the administrator account, it's no big
deal. I believe this has to be done from safe mode however.
Tony will most likely know.
BTW3 are you using the Welcome screen? The Administrator
account will not show up on that screen unless it is the only
account (other than the Guest account) on the computer or
unless the computer is being booted into Safe Mode. The
Administrator account can be made to show on the Welcome Screen
at all times however, by using a "tweaking program" such as
tweakui.
BTW4 To get to the Win2K style login screen from the Welcome
Screen, press the "Three Fingered Salute" (Ctrl-Alt-Del) twice.
Then you can type in Administrator as the login name along with
the password.
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