Administrator Privilages - XP Professional

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Matt L.

Quick question for anyone - probably something VERY simple
I'm just overlooking.

I have a laptop with Windows XP Professional on it. It is
added to a domain at work, thus I can select logon
to "computer" or "domain" at my startup screen.

The problem I'm having, is that whenever I try to do any
adiministrative tasks when I'm logged onto my domain, I'll
have to logoff, then logon to the computer....

I am listed as an administrator both locally and on the
server, so why don't I have these privilages when I'm
logged into the domain???

Thanks anyone/everyone!

-Matt
 
Well, first of all I think that not being logged on as an administrator all
of the time is a very good thing - I have a local admin account, and run my
domain account as a limited user because it's just plain safer that way.
However, if you really want all of the code you run, regardless of source,
to have an administrator's user token giving it rights to do everything it
could ever want to do, then you need to explicitly add your domain account
to the administrators group, which you can do in the user control panel by
clicking on advanced.
 
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