My settings wont stick if I am not an administrator. Why not? (copied an administrator account)?

Question

Before, I never created a user profile in windows. I had just been using the default 'Administrator' account. Reecently, I decided that I dont want to be the 'Administrator' anymore, because I know it is not safe. I created a new user account, and I used the system control panel to copy the documents and settings from 'Administrator' to the new account. The problem, though, is that if I change the new account from administrator to regular, I loose the ability to set my desktop background, theme settings, ect. All theme settings revert to a basic look. Blank background, classic windows 2000 theme, ect. If I try to change them it wont do anything. Does anyone know how to fix this? I am running windows xp professional (tablet edition). And I am not comp. illiterate, but this one has me stumped. ;-) Thanks!

Answer 1

On the adminstrator acct, you need to change the setting that gives other users permissions to do certain tasks.

Answer 2

Because you did not specify the new account to be an admin account. Windows prevents alot of users from doing that if not administrators.

You need to go into administrator mode and change your Local group policy to allow those if you want that, or make the new account a administrator account.