Thread: win7 user accounts?

If you do that you won't be able to elevate your priveleges. If you need to be Admin, ever, you need to stay in the Administrators group. The idea is that you are using the computer a just a User level but when you need it, it will elevate you to Admin briefly. If you demote yourself to just a User you won't be able to do anything that requires Admin rights.

First off, if you create a new user account you are defaulted to the Administrator group, even with XP. You can create yourself an account and set it to Standard user. The only difference is, when you encounter a situation that needs Administrator privileges, you'll get a UAC prompt and require an Administrator password. If you leave yourself at Administrator, you'll still get UAC prompt but not ...

ok - so being in the admin group means i can have access/admin access after UAC prompts for it. thanks

OK, I see you must be using the Group/User management tool, rather than the one in the control panel. I see it does just default you to User in that tool.