Art Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a PC that had a blank hard drive (not an upgrade). I have a question about something that looks like a possible security exposure. I went into User Accounts in Control Panel. I see an Administrator account and a Guest account as I expected. But I also see an "ASP.NET Machine A..." account. It indicated, "Limited account, Password protected". Is this normal? The picture icon associated with that account is strange- like a cartoon animal. Any ideas? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darknight Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a PC that had a blank hard drive (not an upgrade).I have a question about something that looks like a possible security exposure. I went into User Accounts in Control Panel. I see an Administrator account and a Guest account as I expected. But I also see an "ASP.NET Machine A..." account. It indicated, "Limited account, Password protected". Is this normal? The picture icon associated with that account is strange- like a cartoon animal. Any ideas? Thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes it's a normal account , the icon should be that of a person in front of a monitor though. Maybe to much chang ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimdog Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 A simple explination of this account can be found at: http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 I recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a PC that had a blank hard drive (not an upgrade).I have a question about something that looks like a possible security exposure. I went into User Accounts in Control Panel. I see an Administrator account and a Guest account as I expected. But I also see an "ASP.NET Machine A..." account. It indicated, "Limited account, Password protected". Is this normal? The picture icon associated with that account is strange- like a cartoon animal. Any ideas? Thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes it's a normal account , the icon should be that of a person in front of a monitor though. Maybe to much chang ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Continuing my "security check"... Darknight, are you runnning SP2 of Windows XP (as I am)? In my icons area for accounts, there is no icon with a person in front of a monitor (see directory below). The strange icon I mentioned in my original post was the default for "ASP.NET Machine A..." that came with Windows XP SP2 and it is cat.bmp in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimdog Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Maybe of interest to you: http://tweakxp.com/tweak682.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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