Differences in local groups in windows 10/11: Administrator and Power user.

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Differences in local groups in windows 10/11: Administrator and Power user.

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What are the differences between the Administrator and Power User groups?

I cannot find any information about the "Power user" group in the Microsoft documentation.

What privileges does a user added to this group have?

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DaveM121 868.4K Independent Advisor

There is no official documentation I can find, but here is an article on a Microsoft Blog about Power Users.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-...

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Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

A Power User is basically in-between an Administrator and a Standard user, a Power User does not have full administrator privileges on the PC, they have certain privileges like these:

Change settings like date and time, printers, power options.. etc

Edit Windows system services which are not started by default.

A Power User cannot add themself to the Administrator Group and do not have access to other users data on the C drive.

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Anonymous

What does the installation of programs by a user in this group look like?

Is there any technical documentation that lists all the privileges of a given group?

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