Security and privacy, Administrator rights – Dell Inspiron 15 (1564, Early 2010) User Manual

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Security and Privacy

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Security and Privacy

Protecting Your Computer—Using Administrator
Rights, User Groups, and Passwords

The Microsoft

®

Windows

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operating system has security features such as

administrator passwords and user passwords that let you control access to
your computer and the information stored on your computer.

Administrator Rights

An administrator can make system-wide changes to the computer, change
security settings, install software, and access all files on the computer. A
person with a computer administrator account has full access to other user
accounts on the computer.

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