Limited user account type?
Last night I reloaded XP pro on a new HARD drive on Dell Latitude C610 laptop mt after that last one of them crashed. When considering the types of user accounts I see administrator and limited. This is not the first time I rebooted XP but it's the first time I see the designation limited to the account type. In the past, I always saw the types of user accounts, user with power, as well as other comments. The CD has SP2 on it and I don't want to upgrade to SP3, until I have find what is happening.
Never mind. I just received a response from Tekzilla. Thank you
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