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Figure 13-41 Power Users group—almost never used at the small

office/home level

Clearly, Microsoft needed a better method to prevent people from running

programs that they should not run. If users have the correct privileges,

however—or the ability to “escalate” their privileges to that of an

administrator—then they should be able to do what they need to do as simply

as possible. Microsoft needed to make the following changes:

• The idea of using an administrator account for daily use needed to go

away.

• Any level of account should be able to do anything as easily as

possible.

• If a regular account wants to do something that requires administrator

privileges, the user of the regular account will need to enter the

administrator password.

• If a user with administrator privileges wants to run something that

requires administrator privileges, the user will not have to reenter his

or her password, but the user will have to respond to an “Are you

sure?”–type dialog box so he or she appreciates the gravity of the

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