Administrator account

Is there a difference between the Administrator (with administrator
privileges) account and a user given administrator privileges?

The reason I ask is that on several occasions I've seen fellow employees who
could not open modify the device manager. They got a message that they need
to be the administrator. But they had administrator privileges for their
machine. When they log in with the user ID of administrator then they can
change/see the device manager seetings.

Does this make sense to anyone??

"SBC" wrote:

> Is there a difference between the Administrator (with administrator
> privileges) account and a user given administrator privileges?
>
> The reason I ask is that on several occasions I've seen fellow employees who
> could not open modify the device manager. They got a message that they need
> to be the administrator. But they had administrator privileges for their
> machine. When they log in with the user ID of administrator then they can
> change/see the device manager seetings.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone??

It could be that they also have User privileges too and that anyone under
User may be prevented from accessing this snap-in.

Try going into the User Management snap-in (LUsrMgr.MSC) and check each user
to see if they are a part of both 'Users' and 'Administrators'. If so,
remove 'Users' from each account OR all desired accounts from the 'Users'
group.

-= VbN =-