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zdave83
Former Member
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What happened to McAfee user accounts?

Hello

I have two PC's with McAfee downloaded from Comcast. McAfee was installed on the 1st computer about a year ago and works great. I have McAfee user accounts so that kids of different ages can have different levels of access, without having to have a lot of "Limited" Windows accounts all over the computer.

I installed McAfee on a second computer a few weeks ago, and had been searching for a way to set up McAfee user accounts. I finally came across a statement in the documentation that said something like "if your PC had McAfee user accounts before, they will still be active, but if this is a new installation, McAfee user accounts are not available". No additional explanation.

>>> What the ____? <<<

What happened to McAfee user accounts? How does removing this functionality help the customer? Did I miss something here?

Any light you can shed on this will be appreciated.

Thanks -- Dave
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exbrit
MVP
MVP
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RE: What happened to McAfee user accounts?

It's all done through Windows User Accounts in the current product. The McAfee Users would only continue to be available if you upgraded from a previous product that had those settings rather than do a clean installation. The process can't be reversed.

See this user guide, page 141 onwards: http://download.mcafee.com/products/manuals/en-us/MTP_userguide_2009.pdf

You need Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to read PDF's here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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