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The admin account on my PC should ALWAYS BE RUNNING.

I am allowing other accounts to use the PC (includes running apps of course) while the admin is logged in but i want to prevent that non-admin from shutting down or restarting the pc. How to do that in windows 8.1?

Also, is there a way to sandbox that non-admin? I mean to protect the whole PC resources from crashing or running suspicious scripts/files. No to virtual software, it will eat a lot of resources.

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You can prevent users from shutting down the system by changing the local security policy.

  • From Start type Local Security Policy and it should pop as you type
  • Expand Local Policies
  • Select User Rights Assignment
  • in the right pane, double click Shut down the system
  • Select Users and click Remove
  • Click Apply
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  • thanks. do you have any suggestion about the sandbox thing? Dec 18, 2013 at 6:39
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    that is much more difficult and should be a different question
    – Keltari
    Dec 18, 2013 at 6:55
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Run Secpol.msc pressing the Win + R button

Go to Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Shut down the system.

and remove users you don't want there.

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