desktop should be the administrator not the laptop

administrator is a user account and/or account status on a computer, not
a computer role.

both machines will have administrator accounts!

unless one of you is purposefully controlling the other pc its
illogical either of you would do damage to the other, and given your
knowledge of the situation it is pretty safe to say you aint doing
this.

what it sounds like has happened is maybe on the xp machine you're
running a user account with standard user credentials. go into control
panel/user accounts and change they account type. if you find you can't
it maybe necessary to boot into safe mode to run as administrator
(assuming your on xp home and you don't know what the administrator
account is named) and change the state of the xp accounts from within
there - to get to safe mode press F8 on after restarting your machine
and befroe the "knight rider" splash screen pops up.


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