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XP Home Edition and Limited Access issue.
Until recently my computer was not downloading or installing Windows Updates
and in the process of finally finding the solution (in these threads) I have apparently messed up my daughter’s and my son’s access to my computer. I use Windows XP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4500 and they both have limited access logons. Since I fixed this issue they are now unable to logon. Even if I use Start-Run and "control userpasswords2" and reset their passwords to new passwords that we all know (or even none at all), they still cannot logon. The computer always responds with the message "Did you forget your password?". If I make their accounts administrator accounts everything is OK again. All I was doing prior to all this (as far as I can recall was making changes to "msconfig", but I do not believe anything could have been left in a state to cause this if in the "General" tab the "Normal Startup" radio button is checked - or am I mistaken?). Even if I create new limited access accounts the results are the same, so it is all related to the access type of the account. Obviously I do not want to leave them with Administrator priviledges for any length of time but for now when they need to do homework I am having to do so. The only other thing that may have a bearing is that I have also been trying to setup set up two computers on a workgroup on a wireless network. Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have been struggling with this for about a week and a half. |
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XP Home Edition and Limited Access issue.
That is a strange one. Offhand I don't know what the problem is but use
Event Viewer to look in the security log to see if any logon failures are recorded at the time they try to logon and if so see if the logon failure has an explanation of why the logon failed. If you have not done so lately be sure to run a full virus scan on your computer in regular and Safe Mode to see if anything is found and being sure to use the latest updates from the publisher of your anti virus program. It almost sounds like regular users do not have the user right to logon locally but when that is the case usually they are told such at logon - at least for XP Pro. There is a free tool called dumpsec from SomarSoft that you can use to dump user rights for your computer if you want to check the user right for logon locally and deny logon locally. -- Steve http://www.somarsoft.com/ --- Dumpsec "russell_r33" wrote in message ... Until recently my computer was not downloading or installing Windows Updates and in the process of finally finding the solution (in these threads) I have apparently messed up my daughter's and my son's access to my computer. I use Windows XP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4500 and they both have limited access logons. Since I fixed this issue they are now unable to logon. Even if I use Start-Run and "control userpasswords2" and reset their passwords to new passwords that we all know (or even none at all), they still cannot logon. The computer always responds with the message "Did you forget your password?". If I make their accounts administrator accounts everything is OK again. All I was doing prior to all this (as far as I can recall was making changes to "msconfig", but I do not believe anything could have been left in a state to cause this if in the "General" tab the "Normal Startup" radio button is checked - or am I mistaken?). Even if I create new limited access accounts the results are the same, so it is all related to the access type of the account. Obviously I do not want to leave them with Administrator priviledges for any length of time but for now when they need to do homework I am having to do so. The only other thing that may have a bearing is that I have also been trying to setup set up two computers on a workgroup on a wireless network. Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have been struggling with this for about a week and a half. |
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