You’ll see “Administrator” below your name here if you’re an administrator. (You can check your administrator status by heading to Settings > Accounts > Your Info. If you own your own PC and it isn’t managed by your workplace, you’re probably using an administrator account. The purpose of an administrator role is to allow changes to certain aspects of your operating system that might otherwise become damaged by accident (or through malicious action) by a normal user account. (There’s also a hidden account named “Administrator,” but any account can be an administrator.) Administrator accounts can configure system settings and access normally restricted parts of the operating system.
There are two types of accounts in Windows: Standard user accounts and Administrator user accounts.
