Question about User accounts

[Red Barchetta]

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.

[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

[Red Barchetta]

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.......

[Legolash2o]

that might stop users from changing there passwords

[Red Barchetta]

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).