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| 416820 | 2005-12-31 05:27:00 | hi i was wondering what is the difference between a power user and an administrator and is a power user account okay for everyday computing and also how do you get a power user account? ~Matt |
matty3 (5363) | ||
| 416821 | 2005-12-31 07:51:00 | Assuming your using XP Professional, Its better to be a Power user rather than an administrator. Primarily because of the security factor. Power users do not have as much access to hardware and software as an admin, But more access than a standard user. Which helps to reduce the likelyhood of catching nasties (theoretically anyway) Changing user type is fairly easy... As an administrator user click Start / Run / type in 'compmgmt.msc' / Enter Click 'local users and groups' / Groups / Double Click 'Power Users' Add the name of the user you want to be a power user. This is the logon name you use to access the computer. Click 'Add'. That user is now a Power user. Usually the user is also another member of another group. If this is the case... Click 'Users' instead of 'Groups'. Find & double click the user. Find out what membership group they are part of. Go back to Groups. Double Click the membership name. Find the username and click remove. Make sure you do not change the administrator account though... :rolleyes: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 416822 | 2005-12-31 10:24:00 | Assuming your using XP Professional, Its better to be a Power user rather than an administrator.:rolleyes: Without getting on my hobby horse too much - it is better to be neither! Better to do all your work and browsing the net as a non-priveledged user. I believe this is one of the biggest and simplest security issues to do with MS WIndows. Far better to have only two categories of account (root and ordinary user as in Linux). The design of MS Windows does not encourage the use of an unpriveledged account for everyday use. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 416823 | 2005-12-31 11:52:00 | Without getting on my hobby horse too much - it is better to be neither! Better to do all your work and browsing the net as a non-priveledged user. I believe this is one of the biggest and simplest security issues to do with MS WIndows. Far better to have only two categories of account (root and ordinary user as in Linux). The design of MS Windows does not encourage the use of an unpriveledged account for everyday use. I believe the power user is really recommended by MS. You can just use the Run As feature to install software. Mac OS X has it kind of right (the true root user account is even locked out). You can set people up as ordinary users and tell them an admin account username and password (if they really need to do something). Just to scare you I often just use the root account on my Linux box for everything, aye you have to be careful :o |
gibler (49) | ||
| 416824 | 2005-12-31 20:01:00 | When I was attended a "secure computing" seminar by Microsoft, the keynote speaker discussed a survey . Basically someone went down and bought every off-the-shelf application they could find at a typical computer store . The vast majority, primarily games, wouldn't run properly without the user logged in with administrator access . They're hoping to fix it in the next version of Windows . |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 416825 | 2006-01-01 01:19:00 | Thnx 4 all ur replies guys!!!! But no I only hav Win XP Home so I probably can't do that whole poweruser thing. ~Matt |
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