user rights?

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"perthy" wrote:

| Can someone please explain to me why "all users in xp home ed. have admin
| rights" when the Limited account clearly doesn't have admin rights. I'm
| reading this on various websites but don't understand what they mean.

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Yes I know administrator account is in safe mode but a new user is given
administrator - full Administrator privileges - as default. So at least at
the level of user accounts, less all the security of Xp Pro, xp home does
have admin accounts.

"Al Romanosky" wrote:

> There is no designation as "Administrator" in XP Home - Administrator
> function is only available in safe mode. Group policy (gpedit.msc) is not
> available in XP Home (as far as I know).
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