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User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft’s Windows Vistaand Windows Server 2008 operating system. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windowsby limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level. In this way, only applications that the user trusts receive higher privileges, and malware should be kept from receiving the privileges necessary to compromise the operating system. In other words, a user account may have administrator privileges assigned to it, but applications that the user runs do not also have those privileges unless they are approved beforehand or the user explicitly authorizes it to have higher privileges.

A Windows account will only work on the computer it is created on. If you want to use a different computer, you will have to set up a Windows account on that computer.

1.Click the Start button, then click Control Panel.

1. Click User Accounts.

1. Click Create a New Account.

1. To name your user account, type in your Novell user name. Click the Next button.

1. There are two types of Windows XP user accounts:
   • Computer administrators can change all computer settings (for example, installing software and creating new user accounts).
   • Limited users can only modify the passwords for their own user accounts.

   To pick an account type, click either Computer Administrator or Limited. Click the Create Account button.

1. You will be sent back to the User Accounts window where your new account will appear.