I know how to hide any user account from the WinXP welcome screen.

But I would like to know if there is any way to prevent deleting a user account, at least with "standard" methods?

What I mean is if it can be deleted, but to do it, you have to change a registry setting on something like that first, fine. I just want some way to stop you from simply going in to the user manager and deleting it.

Things such as the user account are stored in the sam. You could play around with it, make part of the sam read only so it can't be modified.

-gosh

Things such as the user account are stored in the sam. You could play around with it, make part of the sam read only so it can't be modified.

-gosh

Thanks, I'll see what I can find.......

that might stop users from changing there passwords

that might stop users from changing there passwords

So far I haven't been able to figure anything out - but in this case that would be good if it was only on that one account.

Basically it's a user account I have creating from an OS install disk, it's sort of a "Special Purpose" account (not normally even logged in to, but used to run some programs that are also installed during the OS setup process, and using a program called sanur to pipe the password to the runas command in a batch file, that is compiled to a executable file to prevent getting it's PW just by reading a text file.).

Basically I am trying to make it so it's not easy to mess with that account at all (no delete, no change PW, no disable, exc.) - BUT whatever it is, there has to be a way to do it programatically while the OS setup process is happening, so that the install disk will set it that way every time it is run (regardless of it's a complete install, or repair installation).