XP Media Center - User setup questions

[SeaGreg]

What is the secret to allowing XP Media Center USER accounts the ability of signing onto secured and unsecured web-sites? The system is a stock HP Presario SR1750NX w/AMD-64 3500+, 1GB RAM, integrated sound/graphics on Asus mobo. But back to my OS question...

Supposedly the XP Media Edition OS is based wholely on XP-Pro, but I notice that when setting up non-administrative user accounts that there are no options as in XP-Pro for setting non-admin accts as "power users" or any other options. Either it's an "Admin-type acct (w/associated rights) or a "User" acct that can't even sign into their email accts such as xyz@yahoo or accts @NetFix, etc...

I have setup XP pro accts on networks but XP Media Ed is the OS on our new PC & my kids are frustrated by this short-coming. Apologies for the length of my question & many thanks for any constructive help w/this problem!

[bluesclues123]

"Based wholely [ sic ] on" and exactly like are 2 different entities.

This might help a little.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...january25.mspx

I can't find a hit, at support.microsoft.com , when searching Windows XP Media Center and gpedit or "group policy"

HOWEVER, Doug Knox states: "Since Media Center is built on XP Pro, click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC In the Group Policy Editor, look in both the Computer Configuration and User Configuration branches. You're primarly looking at Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Internet Explorer. If you see it in Computer Configuration, and not in User Configuration, its machine wide. If its in User Configration, but not Computer Configuration its user specific. And if you see it in both, well, it can be either."
Source: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&cd=17

BC123

[SeaGreg]

I am now reasonably sure the issue(s) are actually with either the Norton/Symantec Personal Firewall OR with the Windows XP Firewall - yes I know I should only have one active but for some reason I just feel safer with that second lock turned to active...

Anyway I'll update this later when I get further as this may actually help some other poor dweeb like me down the road...

[glc]

Get rid of the Norton firewall. If you have a router, the XP firewall is ALL you really need. Too many layers of complicated security will cause issues such as this.