What is User account and type of user account in computer

Introduction

Windows allows you to create, configure and delete user accounts on your computer. Parental Control feature provides a family with safety that allows you to supervise the children on PC without them knowing and provides a report of their online activity.

When you migrate your operating system from earlier version of Windows operating system to latest version, some of the applications which work on earlier version will not work with latest version. This is called as compatibility issue. Windows provide several numbers of solutions to resolve this compatibility issue.

User Account

Several people can work in a single computer by creating their own user accounts. Each user account has unique settings and preferences. Each user account can be configured to set their own desktop background, screen saver, themes etc. You can create different types of user accounts on a computer. Windows 7 allows you to change, create and delete a user account.

Types of User Accounts

Windows provide three different types of user accounts namely administrator, standard user and guest user. Different user accounts posses different level of control over the computer.

Administrator user

Administrator has complete access to the computer. An administrator can make desired changes on your computer settings. An administrator account is a user account that allows you to make changes that will affect other users of the computer like installing software or changing security settings. The built-in administrator account is disabled and the account created by user himself is used. You need to create a user account when you set up windows. This account is an administrator account that allows you to set up your computer and install any programs that you would like to use.

Standard user

A standard user can do almost all the jobs that you can do with an administrator account except the changes that affects other users and security of the computer. You can use most programs that are installed on the computer, but you cannot install or uninstall software and hardware, delete files that are required for the computer to work, or change setting of the computer that affect other user.

Guest user

If you want to allow a person to log on to your computer, and you don't want to allow him to access all of your files, then you can create a guest user account. A guest user account allows a user to log on to a network, browse the internet and can shut down the PC. You can change the account type of a user account. The steps to change account type depends on the network type of user. The computer may be on a domain or Work group