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XP SP2 User permissions

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emcc

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Oct 12, 2001
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We've had XP in our office for a long while now so I'm familiar with it but it's not been on my working machine. That's all changed now with my new machine and I'm having a problem with the user permissions. I have an "Administrator" user with Administrator rights and my User with Limited rights. I've found that I've had to switch users many times to Administrator to be able to do things. In particular I've found that with Norton Antivirus 2005 Automatic Live Update does not run unless you have administrator rights. I thought maybe by making my user a part of the Power Users group that would make a difference but for some reason that change did not "stick". Also when looking at my user account - it says unknown type even though this was designated as a Limited user while working as Administrator.

Has anyone run into this or have any suggestions?????
 
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