Everything needs Admin rights to run? 1

[kenhamady]

I bought a new laptop from Dell with Win2K preinstalled. I haven't had any problems running as Administrator but recently I went to setup another user with only "Power User" rights.

Whenever I login as a power user I can't run Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, any of the "settings". All of them kick me to a DW error that logs as "Access Violation". Sounds to me like I will have to reinstall Windows. Just wanted to see if anyone else had run into this problem? Is there something that I am missing? Ken Hamady

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[Axxeman]

You will have to log on as an administrator and give the power user share permissions for the programs you want the power user to be able to access.
But it sounds to me like you actually have too many restrictions set on the power users group.
No, you should not have to re-install Win2000.

 

[kenhamady]

Thanks for the info.

Would these restrictions have been installed as a default at Dell? I haven't changed anything relating to permissions and restrictions and I am the only user.

Where would I go to put the 'share' info? I looked at the Users/passwords area and couldn't see where to put it in. Ken Hamady

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[ttfn]

I'd login as administrator and set your user to be part of the admin group, login as the user (now with admin priv) and setup the environment. Log back in as admin and copy your user profile to the default user, delete your user, then recreate him as part of the power user group, then login to recreate the profile from the default settings. This should work unless Dell did something horribly wrong.

 

[kenhamady]

I guess the part I am missing is 'setting up the environment'. Is that the same as changing permissions and restrictions for programs? That is the part that I can't seem to find. Ken Hamady

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