'Power User' Account in Win XP Home

[Guest]

Greetings,

Windows XP Home Edition does not, unfortunately, enable a generic 'Power
User' profile among it's user options as Win XP Pro does.

Am not too comfortable with consistent\constant use of the Administrator
profile, regardless of the fact that I'm the sole user of the system.

How much flexibility is available with the 'Limited User' and\or 'Guest'
profiles? Real basic, I'd like this 'Power User' account to have Internet
Access, permission to run various applications (e.g. MS Office) but NO system
administration (add\remove programs, adjust settings) priviliges.

Can this be done with Windows XP Home?

 

[Malke]

Greetings,

Windows XP Home Edition does not, unfortunately, enable a generic
'Power User' profile among it's user options as Win XP Pro does.

Am not too comfortable with consistent\constant use of the
Administrator profile, regardless of the fact that I'm the sole user
of the system.

How much flexibility is available with the 'Limited User' and\or
'Guest'
profiles? Real basic, I'd like this 'Power User' account to have
Internet Access, permission to run various applications (e.g. MS
Office) but NO system administration (add\remove programs, adjust
settings) priviliges.

Can this be done with Windows XP Home?

XP Home does not natively offer the fine-grained permissions of Pro.
However, take a look at the MS Shared Computer Toolkit and MVP Doug
Knox's Security Console.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx
http://www.dougknox.com

Malke

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Not really. FYI almost as much damage can be done being a power user and an
administrator since power users have write access to just about everywhere
on the computer. I would just use a regular account everywhere it works -
particularly for internet browsing and opening emails and use administrator
only when you need it. Also you will see that you can logon as a regular
user and use administrator credentials to start an application right
clicking and selecting runas. Runas can also run at the command line to
start an executable. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

Aha! Knew there was a way! Have used\visited Doug's site before, but was
hoping for a more integrated solution. Was *not* aware of the Shared
Computer Toolkit. Believe this will do the trick ...

Thanks!