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If you're running with a standard account, you can do only standard tasks:

 Run programs already installed on your computer, including programs on USB drives.

 Use hardware already installed on your computer.

 Create, view, save, modify, and use documents, pictures, and sounds in the Documents, Pictures, or Music folders as well as in the PC’s Public folders.

 Change your password or switch back and forth between requiring and not requiring a password for your account. You can also add a PIN. If your computer has the necessary hardware, you can use Windows Hello to set up a face scan, fingerprint, or retina scan — just like in the movies.

 Switch between a local account and a Microsoft account. I talk about both in the next section of this chapter.

 Change the picture that appears next to your name on the left side of the Start menu, change the desktop wallpaper, add items to the taskbar and Start menu, and make other small changes that don’t affect other user accounts.

In most cases, standard users can change systemwide settings, install programs, and the like, but only if they can provide the username and password of an administrator account.

If you’re running with a standard account, you can’t even change the time on the clock. The account is quite limited.

On the upside, if you start Windows 11 with a standard account and accidentally run a virus, a worm, or some other piece of bad computer code, the damage is usually limited: The malware can delete or scramble files in your Documents folder and probably in the Public folders, but that’s about the extent of the damage. Usually. Unless it’s exceedingly clever, the virus can’t install itself into the computer, so it can’t run repeatedly, and it may not be able to replicate.

There’s also a special limited version of the standard account called a child account. Child accounts can be controlled and monitored by those with standard and administrator accounts.