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| | desktop should be the administrator not the laptop My laptop has windows vista, my husbands PC just has XP. His computer was here first, I got the laptop for school. We got wireless for the laptop and set the PC up to be the administrator, but it has switched and now my laptop is set up as the administrator. Why or how would this happen? We can't figure out how it got switched. Now my husband can't do anthing with his PC because it might mess up my laptop. Any ideas? Any help will be appreciated. |
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| | Re: desktop should be the administrator not the laptop administrator is a user account and/or account status on a computer, not a computer role. both machines will have administrator accounts! unless one of you is purposefully controlling the other pc its illogical either of you would do damage to the other, and given your knowledge of the situation it is pretty safe to say you aint doing this. what it sounds like has happened is maybe on the xp machine you're running a user account with standard user credentials. go into control panel/user accounts and change they account type. if you find you can't it maybe necessary to boot into safe mode to run as administrator (assuming your on xp home and you don't know what the administrator account is named) and change the state of the xp accounts from within there - to get to safe mode press F8 on after restarting your machine and befroe the "knight rider" splash screen pops up. -- squeakstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ squeakstar's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=29478 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=819737 http://forums.techarena.in |
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