Permissions Manager is a software supplies GUI to manage security settings of files and folders. This GUI is quite different than generic Windows security dialog. It allows creating predefined sets of access control entries (presets) and applying these presets to file system objects. With Permissions Manager user does not need to pick up security principals from the list to assign security settings for a file or folder.

Normally XP Home and Vista Home have user account management tools with limited functionality, so user have to use console tools to create/manage groups. XP Home User manager is a software supplies GUI to manage user and group accounts on Microsoft Windows XP Home edition and Microsoft Windows Vista Home edition. The User manager supports privileges assignment also. For example, you can allow regular users to change system time.