XP Home Ed Q

Hayashi · 12-23-2003, 10:25 PM

Is it possible to set up separate accounts for family members on a machine with XP Home as the OS? If so, how?

Bungleau · 12-23-2003, 10:38 PM

I believe so. I do it on Win 98...

Go into the control panel and look for profiles. You'll need to set everyone up as a profile. Or perhaps it's a user on XP... in either case, start off in Control Panel.

Make sure to keep an Administrator user. There are some things that only Administrator can do...

Night Stalker · 12-23-2003, 11:03 PM

In the control panel, there is an icon for users. This starts a wizard to walk you through the account creation process. If it's your computer, don't let the other accounts have Admin priveleges - they won't be able to install programs or access others profile data. Make sure everyone knows to save any personal files to the My Documents folder. This is a user private folder.

Since you retain the Admin acount, be respectful of the other users data. Also, if you want to increase the security of your machine, create a user account for yourself as well and do most of your computing from there. Only switch to the Admin acct when you want to install a program or do sys maintenace. This protects you from stray programs installing themselves without your knowlege.

12-23-2003, 10:25 PM	#1
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12-23-2003, 10:38 PM	#2
Bungleau 40th Level Warrior Join Date: October 29, 2001 Location: Western Wilds of Michigan Posts: 11,752	I believe so. I do it on Win 98... Go into the control panel and look for profiles. You'll need to set everyone up as a profile. Or perhaps it's a user on XP... in either case, start off in Control Panel. Make sure to keep an Administrator user. There are some things that only Administrator can do... __________________ B Save Early, Save Often Save Before, Save After Two-Star General, Spelling Soldiers -+-+-+ Give 'em a hug one more time. It might be the last.

12-23-2003, 11:03 PM	#3
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