How Can I Access My REAL User Control Panel On My XP Home Machine??
So you need to get to the REAL user control panel on a XP Home SP2 machine? Yes Microsoft locked this down and only give you rudimentary access via the control panel if you upgraded past SP1..
But that has never stopped AtA from putting you on before – Right?!
Here it is early morning and reader Leslie is fiending to get at this cotrol panel.
And why shouldn’t she be able to – it is her machine after all. If you are not part of a domain we really don’t have a good reason for you to need the more expensive XP Pro! Lets start by going to the start menu then clicking run and typing control userpasswords2 like so:
This is the console you should get…
Bam! Just like that you now have your normal user control panel that you would have never seen on XP home! You can change the administrators password and add users normally.
Share your tips with us in the comments!
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about 3 years ago
This lets me add domain users to my xp home machine! Sweet and full control over security.
MS Must hate you…
about 3 years ago
To permanently add this User Control Applet to the Control Panel:
1. create a new text file using notepad and paste the following text (with the dash-lines):
—————start here—-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}]
@=”User Accounts 2″
“InfoTip”=”Starts The Windows 2000 style User Accounts dialog”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\DefaultIcon]
@=”%SystemRoot%\\\\System32\\\\nusrmgr.cpl,1″
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell\Open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}\Shell\Open\command]
@=”Control Userpasswords2″
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{98641F47-8C25-4936-BEE4-C2CE1298969D}]
@=”Add Userpasswords2 to Control Panel”
—————stop here—-
2. Save the file with a .Reg extension.
3. double-click to install the code to your registry. aprove the request when asked.
4. That’s it!!
YaronM
about 3 years ago
Fix for the above comment:
copy the text WITHOUT the dash-lines.
sorry for the typo…
about 3 years ago
Oh! I SO needed this two months ago when one of my users decided to somehow remove all of the users with administrator priviledges from the viewable list!
about 3 years ago
Can you discuss document/file/folder sharing between users on one computer, and how to secure them against outside access. Specifically on XP Home computers? Thanks.
about 3 years ago
Stay tuned Jamie! We got you covered.
about 3 years ago
Thanks. I am also getting ready to set-up a non-admin account on my PC for myself ( besides other users ), because I have read how it would be safer to use a restricted user account for daily computer & internet needs. Is there a way for me to export, or share settings ( from my admin account ) with just my restricted user account?
about 3 years ago
You log in as a normal user and then use the “Run-As” command to execute apps or control panels as “The Administrator”
about 3 years ago
And you can use the settings and migration wizard to copy profile settings from one account to the other.