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Figure 18-1. Here’s the Accounts panel of Settings, where the accounts adventure begins. As you can
see, under this person’s name, it says “Administrator,” meaning that the full world of account
settings is available for changing. Microsoft takes it on faith that this person has a clue.

Administrator accounts

Because you’re the person who installed Windows, the PC assumes that
you’re one of its administrators—the technical wizards who will be in
charge of it. You’re the teacher, the parent, the resident computer genius.

You’re the one who will maintain this PC and who will be permitted to
make system-wide changes to it.

You’ll find settings all over Windows (and all over this book) that only

people with administrator accounts can change. For example, only an
administrator is allowed to do the following:

Create or delete accounts and passwords.

Make changes to certain Control Panel programs.