xp policies

[John]

My mom has a compaq xp laptop. I don't mess with XP much
on my own, mostly 2000 and 98. Anyway, i tried to
uninstall her norton
> 2002 with my cd and it said "administrator's system
> policies will not allow this
> operation". She also goes on a LAN at work in addition
> to carrying it around and doing dial-up. I tried
> typing in "poledit" at the command line but it didn't
work.
>
>
> a friend told me that to uninstall and install some
> applications in XP I need to login as administrator under
> the old login style where it asks for the username and
> password. how do i do that? right now, i just have the
> graphic user buttons that i click to login. and , after i
> login in as administrator, then how and where do i go to
> change the policy so i can uninstall norton and install a
> new one? is there anything else that could be the
problem
> here besides what i suspect? Somebody told me to add
the first account that I made my first attempt to
uninstall Norton
to the Local Administrators group. But I'm not sure how to
do that since I'm new to XP. Any ideas?


any help would be
> appreciated. thanks.
>






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