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| | Can't change a guest account I'm running Vista SP 1. I have an account called 'owner' that was created at some point early on when I got the machine. It is my primary user account. I have recently found out that the account is a 'guest' account and not a 'standard' or 'administrator' account like I thought. Therefore, I can't run certain programs or even Windows Update under this account. Can anyone tell me how to change this account to an 'administrator' account? I've tried everything I can think of and need some additional help. Thanks, Lane |
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| | RE: Can't change a guest account yes you can change it to the admin account. Click on start menu, right click on Computer, Click on manage. Go to Local use and groups -> Users. Right click on Guest -> properties Click the second tab "Member of". Click on Add. Add the Administrators group to the guest account. Click ok. "Lane" wrote: Quote: > I'm running Vista SP 1. I have an account called 'owner' that was created at > some point early on when I got the machine. It is my primary user account. > I have recently found out that the account is a 'guest' account and not a > 'standard' or 'administrator' account like I thought. Therefore, I can't run > certain programs or even Windows Update under this account. Can anyone tell > me how to change this account to an 'administrator' account? I've tried > everything I can think of and need some additional help. > > Thanks, > Lane > > > |
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