Windows 7 power user permissions

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X Donate Contact us. New posts Trending Search forums. What's new. New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. Windows 7 power user vs user permissions. Thread starter BigAl06 Start date Mar 30, Forums Software Windows 7.

JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. BigAl06 Distinguished. Mar 30, 3 0 18, 0. With the power user group gone in Windows 7, has the standard User now gotten the permissions that the Power User had? Aug 1, 1, 3 19, The Power Users group is maintained only for compatibility with legacy applications only. When I activate a font through the program I get prompted with the UAC and after entering the credentials I get a message saying that this operation needs elevated permissions.

However, when I place the user in the Power User's group, I enter the credentials and it lets me activate the font. Same goes with Java updates. Applications that require elevation when run on Windows 7 a standard user account cannot do, unlike downloading and installing firefox for example.

This is where the Power users group comes in to give those necessary privilages for those legacy apps. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Laplink Software, Inc. On XP it gave you ' a bunch of access ' and I don't think I know anywhere that its ever been used. I have to admit I haven't even given it a thought since Vista onwards. Checking secpol. However its description would have you believe that "Power Users are included for backwards compatibility and possess limited administrative powers".

By default, members of this group have no more user rights or permissions than a standard user account. The Power Users group in previous versions of Windows was designed to give users specific administrator rights and permissions to perform common system tasks. In this version of Windows, standard user accounts inherently have the ability to perform most common configuration tasks, such as changing time zones. For legacy applications that require the same Power User rights and permissions that were present in previous versions of Windows, administrators can apply a security template that enables the Power Users group to assume the same rights and permissions that were present in previous versions of Windows.

You can enable anything you like and there is no error - it just doesn't work. But after I upgraded myself to the Power Users group I had already enabled the right options in Trust Center , I can record, write, or run vba solutions as I do when logged in with my administrator account. Caveat: This was tested in a Windows 7 environment with O only for Outlook, so I can't swear it will work for the other apps, but VBA permissions have never varied per-application before, so I'm assuming it will be the same for the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint macros.

Power Users also allows an account to create shares. I tested it by creating shares in a cluster with new-smbshare command where I only added the domain account to Power Users. Without being in Power Users, the domain account could not create the share.

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note You can use also the Secedit command-line tool to configure and analyze system security. Note The user who runs this command must have administrator rights for it to complete successfully.

If MachineName is omitted, the local machine is assumed. If DomainName is omitted, the local machine is searched for the account. Although the syntax example indicates a user name, this will work for user groups too.