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With a limited account, you can:
• Change or remove your password
• Change your picture, theme, and other desktop settings
• View files you created
• View files in the Shared Documents folder
Users with limited accounts cannot always install progr ams.
Depending on the program, a user might need administrator
privileges to install it.
Also, programs designed prior to Windows XP or Windows 2000
might not work properly with limited accounts. For best results,
choose programs bearing the Designed for Windows XP logo, or, to
run older programs, choose the "computer administrator" account
type.
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Change Account Type
As you can see, Limited users are just that strictly limited to what they can and
cannot do on a computer. For the most part, logging in as a limited user should
cause no problems in using applications on the computer. Email, web browsing, and
instant messaging do not require administrative privileges, and are common
avenues for malicious code to attack end users' systems. However, certain
actions-such things as installing software, creating new network connections, or
even running certain programs-require you to access them as the Administrator.
There are two simple ways to accomplish this. First, you can always switch from
Limited user to Administrator:
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