My XP has two login ids. One has admin rights (admin type) and the other
does not (limited type).

On occasion I want to make the limited one have admin rights. I would do
this by logging in as admin and changing the limited one to be an admin
type. This doesn't seem to make a difference.

Is there something I should be doing using Local Security Policy?

Thanks!

Before you log in as admin to change the user account, you need to log
off the from that limited user account you want to change. This is to
ensure that when you login in again on that particular limited user
account, it has [inherited] all the admin rights as intended.

There aren't any other settings required.

hth


Hall wrote:

Instead of switching the account back and forth, simply use the runas
command to use the admin account.

Right click on the program you wish to run and click "run as"

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"Hall" <hall@garp.org> wrote in message
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As Larry suggested using the RunAs option is a good alternative to logging
off and back on again but you could also grant full access to certain folders
and files in XP. To do this, right click on a folder/file which you would
like to allow full access to and select properties, then select the security
tab (in order to view the secrity tab, you may need to go to Tools - Folder
Options - View. Then scroll down and remove the tick from 'Use simple file
sharing'), click Add then Advanced then Find Now, scroll to the limiter user
name you would like to grant access to and click OK and OK again then select
which options you would like to allow i.e Full Control, Read & Execute,
Write, Modify etc. Click Apply then OK.

Hope that helps :-)

"Hall" wrote: