Re: Promoting an user to a power user

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:07:30 +0100

Mitja wrote:

> Thanks for help. Correct me if I'm wrong but in Windows XP Pro a user can be
> member of more groups. Until now I thought that a user can be member of a
> single group, because of the "Change my account type" option under User
> Account in Control Panel, which allows to switch between Computer
> administrator and limited account.
>
> I have just another questions: If for example an user is member of
> Administrators group and Users group, how could I switch between them?
Hi

You can't, because it is still only one user account. The group
memberships just governs what access rights the account will get.
If you are member of several groups, you just get the sum of the
access rights.

As the Administrators group includes all the rights that the
Users group have, it doesn't matter if you are a member of the
Users group or not. 

-- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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