[Virtualacorn-list] RISC OS 6 Installation Problem

[Alan Adams]

In message <5027c00c58briancarroll at f2s.com>
          Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

> In article <fe1e812750.Alan.Adams at orchard-way.freeserve.co.uk>,
>    Alan Adams <alan at adamshome.org.uk> wrote:
>> In message <5027778e31briancarroll at f2s.com> Brian Carroll
>>           <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:
>>> In article <c3b614f64f.chris at cumbrian.demon.co.uk>, Chris
>>> Hughes <chris at noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

>>> [Snip]

>>>> That did not work for me, what did work was the access
>>>> permissions for the user account (active directory rights).

>>>> I found that for some reason my user (I am supposedly the
>>>> only user account on this PC) was not giving me full
>>>> permissions on certain folders, on the C drive, once I
>>>> modified those rights it all worked.

> [Snip and a bit of re-arrangement of Alan's posting]

<snip>

> There are 2 accounts: me, 'Brian', with 'admin' access and
> 'Guest' with 'limited' access but switched off[1]. No passwords
> have ever been set, but the 'Use the Welcome screen' option is
> set. Thus only 'Brian' has access to anything and this
> presumably is why when I turn on the computer it goes straight
> to a blue screen saying 'Welcome' but with no names and
> continues into its long starting rigmarole with no input from me.

> The question now is whether the settings I have described are
> likely to screw up the installation of RISC OS 6.xx . If there
> is any risk of a half-done job I shall not even try it.

> Brian.

> [1] I activate it occasionally when my family visits.

I still think there will be 3 accounts. TRhe Welcome screen and the 
control panel, users tool both hide the Administrator account. If you 
only have one other active user, and no passwords, then you will log 
in as you describe above.

If you go to Start, Run, and type lusrmgr.msc you will run the full 
user administrator program, instead of the stripped down version in 
the control panel.

  ! Don't use this to change anything !

Under users I expect you to see Brian and Administrator.

The only time I've seen systems without a hidden Administrator account 
were installed before SP1 had been released, and it was possible to 
have only an Administrator account. You could change the login name of 
this account to, for example, Brian, but the account is still called 
Administrator internally.


-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan at adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/