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• Users Members of the Users group cannot edit the Registry or access

critical system files. They can create groups but can manage only those

they create. Members of the Users group are called standard users.

If you change the Jane account from administrator to standard user,

you specifically take the Jane account out of the Administrators group

and place it into the Users group. Nothing happens with her personal

files or folders, but what the Jane account can do on the computer

changes rather dramatically.

• Guests The Guests group enables someone who does not have an

account on the system to log on by using a guest account. You might

use this feature at a party, for example, to provide casual Internet

access to guests, or at a library terminal. Most often, the guest account

remains disabled.

Standard User and Elevated Privileges

The typical scenario with Windows machines will have a single primary user

account—a standard user—and a local administrator account for doing

important tasks like installing or uninstalling apps, updating software, and so

on. When you’re logged in as a standard user and need to do something that

requires an administrator account, you have a couple of options. You could

log out and log back in as an administrator, but that’s clunky. Windows gives

you a way to open and run utilities with the context menu of a right-click,

called Run as administrator, or generically, using elevated privileges. The

mechanism that will pop when you want to do something beyond your user

account level is called UAC. See the “Beyond Sharing Resources” section at

the end of this chapter for the gory details.

Configuring Users and Groups in Windows

Windows comes with many tools to help you create, modify, and delete users

and groups. Every version of Windows includes at least two user and group

management tools; let’s focus on the simplest, Local Users and Groups (see

Figure 13-3). You can access Local Users and Groups in two ways:

• Select Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management |

Local Users and Groups.

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