XP Home Ed. User Accounts

You aren't the only user. XP has several user accounts it uses. Other =
programs use other user accounts. It's a way of preventing programs =
running with YOUR security permissions.

Take a web server, if it's hacked you don't want the hacker to format =
your drive. So web servers get a user account that just allows web =
serving.

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"Wallace Dickson" wrote in message =

 >I have configured my newly installed XPSP2 Home Ed. to run
 > two user accounts, me and a guest, both password protected.
 > This morning I find an additional account set up for
 > ASP.NET Machine A...
 > How does this happen so automatically, and why? It is a
 > limited account, but I did not set it up! My machine was
 > turned off over night as usual.
 > Should I simple delete this account? Or is it vital for
 > some reason? Or have I been hacked into by some nefarious
 > hacker?
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Wallace Dickson wrote:

 >I have configured my newly installed XPSP2 Home Ed. to run
 >two user accounts, me and a guest, both password protected.
 >This morning I find an additional account set up for
 >ASP.NET Machine A...
 >How does this happen so automatically, and why?

It is associated with installing the .NET framework software from
Windows Update. Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from
<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp</a>

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

Its Logon page, uncheck 'Show ASPNET on Welcome screen'

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn.TakeThisOut@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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