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    Admin user to standart user - new admin user.. will that work?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by zakazak, Apr 4, 2011.

  1. zakazak

    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    Hi, i never used UAC and always worked with an admin account. I now want to make my current/normal account (admin) to a standart user and create a new account as admin. So i will have my current account with all my settings just as an standart user. Will that work?
    Or do i have to make a new standart user an copy all my data/settings from my admin account to the new standart user? (i often installed programs with "only for this user" checked)

    Thanks
     
    zakazak, Apr 4, 2011
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  2. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    Just make a new account with Admin privileges, and then change your current one to Standard user.
     
    Kuu, Apr 4, 2011
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  3. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    exactly, there should always be at least one admin account.

    So if you try to go Admin-->Standard, it wont work unless you create a second admin account first.
     
    agusman, Apr 4, 2011
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  4. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Heh, there is a way to do this, but it's a BAD idea: You will have locked yourself out of the system, with a need to re-install... ;)
     
    Pirx, Apr 4, 2011
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  5. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    yes, but I left that option out, for the OP's sake...
     
    agusman, Apr 4, 2011
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