[pchelpers] Re: winxp admin privileges

Hi John,

Saturday, March 27, 2004, 1:09:25 AM, you wrote:

JD> This link gives instructions on how to get in as administrator in XP:
JD> http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1421.aspx

The article doesn't mention that you need adminisrative access in
order to be able to make the changes mentioned.

If you have administrative access, then you can do virtually
everything that you need the Administrator account for. I've seen a
number of cases where someone says to log on as Administrator to do
something or other, not just an account with administrative
privileges, but I've yet to see that make an actual difference, except
in the case of PWDUMP, which merely seems to require an account NAMED
"Administrator", not necessarily the built-in Administrator account
(accounts can be renamed).

--Scott.


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