I inherited this lonely old Win2k work station from where I work.
The IT dude pulled it out of service, and because some staff kept pulling it off the storage shelf and setting it up, the boss said to me “do whatever you want with it, just get it out of here”
So I took it home and stripped it of unnecessary installed junk, bloat-ware, etc. jacked up the RAM installed a second HDD, a PCI USB2 card and put it in service on my home network as a backup file server, (after stripping it’s not bad for a Celeron 500)
I changed all the User Account passwords [Net User …] had a bugger of a time with the domain admin account on the machine since when I set it up again it wasn’t attached to the original domain, but that seems to be resolved.
The major problem is with the limited account on the machine, all my other 2K boxes flip out at me when I try and do admin. tasks from within the limited account, this particular machine however doesn’t care, no matter what account I use whether limited, power user, admin, or “default admin” I can do anything I want.
Normally, under a limited account; setting the time, running Defrag, installing programs, changing power options, etc. is prohibited, except on this machine, for some strange reason security settings are ignored.
Any ideas on how to correct this, (except re-install, I don’t have any disks for the machine);
I normally start the system with the limited account because it’s just sitting there while I work on my main machine and just push or pull files to or from it when I need to, and only start an admin account for patch Tuesday, or to run a full system scan or other updates , which seems to be the only thing that still recognizes the Limited Account.
Even Firefox in the Limited account is allowed to check for updates and apply it if any are found. (but not on any of my other machines, 4x XP, & 3x Win 2K)
