Windows 7: Privileges of a Standard User

Hello community,

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I have a problem regarding User Accounts.



Let's say I am account A on this computer. This is an administrator account without a password. When I went into the control panel, I demoted Account B to a standard user. Apparently, however, account B can simply change this setting even though she is a standard user. Is this true? Even when I set a password for my account, account B can still bypass it or demote me. Why is this?

That's odd, you've booted into account B and checked this? I remember messing around with the user accounts a while ago and I remember confirming that normal account users can't escalate themselves to admin, or even touch other accounts. Was the same OS as yours, Windows 7 x64 HP.

If you put a password on account A (the admin one) does this still happen?

I have checked by going into account B. I am experiencing the same problem even with a password.

Welcome
I think that your answer would be to make a new standard account. You should be given the option to transfer settings etc from another user. I think that your problem would be solved.

I tried creating a new standard user account (account C) as a test, but when I went into this account and tried to delete my account (account A, the admin one), it would actually let account C do this.

I don't understand!

I'll ask the stupid questions:

1. Did you restart between tests? It shouldn't matter, it's just a sanity check.
2. Have you tweaked your system in any way? Please provide any tweaks applied to your system.

edit: Screenshots of the UAC for each user might help too.

Peace!

I did not tweak my OS in any way. My UAC notification setting is the default, so no message boxes appear when changing settings.

I hope the gurus drop by soon, this is a very interesting situation. Tried it on several of the work machines here in the office (Windows 7 x32 HP, Windows 7 x32 Pro, Windows 7 x64 Pro) and confirmed that standard user accounts should not be able to elevate themselves to admin or touch other accounts.

Sorry couldn't help, good luck.

All i can think of is that something is wrong in the group policy settings or local security policy...

http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/reset...curity-policy/