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Geek Culture / Account name "Restricted" unusable under Vista?

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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 04:49
I was thinking about installing Limewire, but I wanted to try to contain any of the spyware and such, so I decided to make a new account that's "standard" (the equivalent of limited) so that it won't have access to everything..

Ok, so I was going to use the account name Restricted as it's descriptive for the purpose(to restrict access) of the account...

Well, I got the error "The specified account name is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following characters: /\[]":;|<>+=,?* "

I tried retyping it, and it didn't change, I also tried using an almost identical name (Restrictec) but it keeps giving me that error...

The weird part is that I can create the account Restrictec and then rename it to Restricted with no errors...


anyone know a reason for why this is?

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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 06:00 Edited at: 15th Jul 2007 06:00
Quote: "anyone know a reason for why this is?"

Vista sucks.

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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 07:30
Anyone want to try this on XP ?

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Dave J
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 07:43
Tried it on XP but it says "The account already exists". However, the same fix that you described works (creating it as something else then renaming it).


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