User Account questions

[Jason Freeman]

I was wondering if there was any way under Home Premium to view non-user
accounts, like the system-created accounts. I know I've seen these under
previous operating systems, but I don't know what their roles are and why
they exist.

Second, can User Account Control be turned off per-user?

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Jason Freeman wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any way under Home Premium to view non-user
> accounts, like the system-created accounts.

Not that I'm aware of, for any edition.

> I know I've seen these
> under previous operating systems, but I don't know what their roles are
> and why they exist.

This website has a good amount of information about them. It is
referencing them in a heirarchy, from best to use to worse to use, in
the context of securing a windows server by controlling which account
services run under.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/serversecurity/serviceaccount/sspgch03.mspx#E2FAC

Notice that the worst accounts are actually administrator accounts as
opposed to built-in system accounts. In a networked environment, these
accounts have much more access to resources than system accounts,
especially in a domain environment.

>
> Second, can User Account Control be turned off per-user?

No.

Only excpetion is the built-in "Administrator" account. By default, this
account is not protected by UAC, while all other accounts are.

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-JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/