Power Users?
Does anyone know what happened to the Power Users group in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008? It seems like it still exists but the permissions have been changed. Can anyone confirm whether Power Users still has elevated privileges in the new OS versions?
Re: Power Users?
by Gareth Howells
07-08-2008
The Power Users group in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has essentially been stripped of its elevated privileges. In these newer OS versions, Power Users is equivalent to the Users group — it no longer has the additional permissions it had in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's recommendation is to use elevated privileges through User Account Control (UAC) instead.