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Changing adminstrator profile

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by dmbewe

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I recently joined a company and all computers login to XP Pro as administrator, the problem I have is people load all sorts of software and I want to stop that. I added other administrator accounts with the intension to change the original admin accounts to restricted users but as soon as I did that, the original admin account was lost, I could only login remotely or in safe mode. How can I add new users or is there a new way to handle this?? All these computers are on the network.

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by p.j.hutchison

Normally you would turn off the Welcome screen and just use the old style Ctrl+Alt+Del method of logging in and typing in the username and password.

See User Account control panel and select Change the way users logon and turn off Welcome screen.
Then you can login as administrator. Its more secure this method.

by s_k_k

As long as you have the Administrator password for these machines you can connect remotely using your COmputer Management applet.

To do this from your machine, Go to Control Panel | Administrative Toosl | Computer Management.

Once there, Make a right click on Computer Management(Local) to select "Connect to Another Computer".

Then go to Local Users and Groups | Users.

Select the users you want to make normal users.

Double click on them. Click on "Member of" Tab.

Remove the Administrators Group. Add users Group.

End of this process the particular user is regular user and no longer an administrator.

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