setting up user accounts

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Open the Help and Support Center and search for the article entitled 'Common
tasks: User accounts'.

Ted Zieglar

"ray" <ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have been using the administrative account that is the default from the
> start. I did not set up any accounts. Now I need to setup accounts. My
> 3
> yr old can navigate a computer quite well and I need to keep him out of
> important files and operations. How do I setup a new account with admin
> privilages and be able to get access to programs I already have going on
> the
> admin default profile? Thanks for the help.

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Good idea. Open the Help and Support Center and search for the article
entitled 'Common
tasks: User accounts'.

Ted Zieglar

"ray" <ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F167CCD-3CBA-4E5C-8A4A-9190919F0907@microsoft.com...
>I have been using the administrative account that is the default from the
> start. I did not set up any accounts. Now I need to setup accounts. My
> 3
> yr old can navigate a computer quite well and I need to keep him out of
> important files and operations. How do I setup a new account with admin
> privilages and be able to get access to programs I already have going on
> the
> admin default profile? Thanks for the help.

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Hi Ray,
Control Panel--->User Accounts
With XP, you'll want to make sure that the youngun's account isn't set to
the default Administrator level.  

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

"ray" <ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F167CCD-3CBA-4E5C-8A4A-9190919F0907@microsoft.com...
>I have been using the administrative account that is the default from the
> start. I did not set up any accounts. Now I need to setup accounts. My
> 3
> yr old can navigate a computer quite well and I need to keep him out of
> important files and operations. How do I setup a new account with admin
> privilages and be able to get access to programs I already have going on
> the
> admin default profile? Thanks for the help.
>

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ray wrote:
> I have been using the administrative account that is the default from the
> start. I did not set up any accounts.

Well you've been pretty lucky that the Administrator account didn't
corrupt - you should never use that account for day-to-day use.


Now I need to setup accounts. My 3
> yr old can navigate a computer quite well and I need to keep him out of
> important files and operations. How do I setup a new account with admin
> privilages and be able to get access to programs I already have going on the
> admin default profile? Thanks for the help.

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I have setup new user accounts with one having admin rights. How do I get
existing data ( Microsoft Money and Outlook) into my new user account from
the administrative account?

"ray" wrote:

> I have been using the administrative account that is the default from the
> start. I did not set up any accounts. Now I need to setup accounts. My 3
> yr old can navigate a computer quite well and I need to keep him out of
> important files and operations. How do I setup a new account with admin
> privilages and be able to get access to programs I already have going on the
> admin default profile? Thanks for the help.