CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

Figure 13-40 The danger of administrator privileges in the wrong hands!
User Account Control enables users to know when they are about to do
something that has serious consequences. Here are some examples of
common actions that require administrator privileges:
• Installing and uninstalling applications
• Installing a driver for a device (e.g., a digital camera driver)
• Installing Windows Updates
• Adjusting Windows Firewall settings
• Changing a user’s account type
• Browsing to another user’s directory
Before Vista, Microsoft invented the idea of the Power Users group to
give users almost all the power of an administrator account (to handle most of
the situations just described) without actually giving users the full power of
the account. Assigning a user to the Power Users group still required
someone who knew how to do this, however, so most folks at the small
office/home level simply ignored the Power Users group (see Figure 13-41).