Microsoft® Windows® XP Unleashed

Using Groups to Simplify Management Tasks and Grant Resource Access

It is much simpler to create groups of users and then assign rights to the group than to assign rights to individual user accounts. Once you assign a user to a group, the user is granted all the rights that are associated with that group. Remember, too, that a user can be a member of more than one local group.

Windows XP comes with several built-in groups, which may be all that you need for your environment. Otherwise, you can create your own new local groups and customize the rights granted to the group. The built-in groups are as follows:

• Administrators—Members of this group can do anything on the system.

• Backup Operators—This group can override resource protections that you ...