Hi Lynda,
You might have a distinct "Owner" account as well as whatever account you
use to log onto your computer. Here's how you check this:
Click Start, Control Panel
Open User Accounts
See if there is an "Owner" account.
If you see this, log off, and try to log in on the computer as "Owner". You
should have admin access from this account.
What happens is that during install or your OEM first time experience,
you're asked if you want to create accounts on the system. Users will put
the names of the accounts they want to me, and as a default, WinXP will make
an Owner account for admin use.
I assume that the user accounts are being set as limited access. For
security's sake, I'd recommend you keep it this way and use the Owner
account for system management and Windows Updates. Most malicious code that
you may download or get in e-mail (like computer viruses) cannot access the
system files if you are running with limited permissions on your personal
account.
Hope that helps you out!
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lynda said:
I have some problems with updating WINSXP when I go to the update site I
get adninisrtators only I follow the instructions and it doesnot update Iam
a home user and my computer is not in a network environment. Any suggestions
and how to get around this I need the update for WINSXP it crashes and it
sends me to the WINSXP update. Any help is appreciated thank you
