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Old 11-10-2007   #1 (permalink)
UnknownTBeast


 
 

Local Users and Groups

I have Vista Home Premium, and I was SHOCKED to find out that Local Users and
Groups have been disabled in this verison of Vista. Being a Sys Admin for a
XP server I use it a lot, and I wish to use it on my Vista. Is there any way
to enable it?

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Old 11-10-2007   #2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: Local Users and Groups

Hi,

No, not unless you upgrade to Ultimate or Business. The "Home" versions of
Vista do not include editors or snapins that are used in a domain
environment.

Not sure why you would be shocked, as in XP you had to have Pro, not Home,
for these tools as well.

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>I have Vista Home Premium, and I was SHOCKED to find out that Local Users
>and
> Groups have been disabled in this verison of Vista. Being a Sys Admin for
> a
> XP server I use it a lot, and I wish to use it on my Vista. Is there any
> way
> to enable it?
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Old 11-11-2007   #3 (permalink)
Bruce Chambers


 
 

Re: Local Users and Groups

UnknownTBeast wrote:
Quote:

> I have Vista Home Premium, and I was SHOCKED to find out that Local Users and
> Groups have been disabled in this verison of Vista. Being a Sys Admin for a
> XP server ....

Erm.... There's no such thing as a "XP server;" WinXP is a client OS,
just like Vista Home.




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Old 11-11-2007   #4 (permalink)
Jimmy Brush


 
 

Re: Local Users and Groups

Hello,

A good alternative is the "net user" and "net localgroup" command-line
utility. Make sure you are running an elevated command prompt to use these
commands (right-click command prompt, click run as administrator).

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- JB
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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