re: Adding new user without losing access to original administrator account
Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7097 messages posted)
1. Log on as the built-in Administrator account, which is what they are using (BIG
mistake, by the way).
2. Make a new user for yourself, make it a Computer Administrator account.
3. Make a second new user, also a Computer Administrator. This will eventually
be your Aunt's account for daily use.
4. Log off as the built-in Administrator account. Log on to your new account.
Log off and log on to your Aunt's new account. (This initial logon process builds
the folder structure in the c:\documents and settings folder for each new account.)
Log off.
5. Log on once again to your account. Start>r/c on My Computer>choose properties>Advanced
tab>User Profiles section>Settings button.
6. Highlight the built-in Administrator account>Copy To>Change button>Advanced tab>Find
now button, select the new account you made for your Aunt>OK>OK.
7. Log off. Log on to your Aunt's new account to verify the copy process has completed
and that documents and settings have been copied.
8. If your Aunt was using Outlook Express for her email client, and the new account
does not have her email account and email messages, use the following MS KB article
to transfer the mail and settings:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055/
9. Finally, log on to the built-in Administrator account. (From the Welcome Screen,
press and hold down both CTRL and ALT, hit DEL twice rapidly, then release all three
to bring up the classic logon; type in Administrator and the correct password [if
there is no password on the account simply leave blank].)
10. Conrol Panel>User Accounts, change the type of both yours and your Aunt's accounts
from Computer Administrator to Limited User. (For best security, do your daily computing
tasks while logged on as a Limited User. Log on as a Computer Administrator only
when the task to be done requires the higher authority of a CA account. When that
task is done, log off the CA account.)
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