How to manage your user account

When would you want to set up user accounts?

If you are the only one using your computer, or if you don't plan to setup a network between your computer and another computer, you don't need to setup accounts.

If you're sharing your computer with someone else, having your own account can be usefull. It allows you to:

• Create your own desktop Look & Feel
• You'll get your own "My Documents" folder to store your documents in
• You'll have your own set of Favorites and the history of which web pages, you have visited

Those parts of the computer will only be accessible for you

Go to your Control Panel

Start > Settings > Control Panel

Look for the icon for your user Accounts

When you click the Icon for User Accounts, you'll get the choice of Creating a new account or changing an existing account

To create a new account - click "New Account" Then you'll see a new window, where you have to type in the name of your new account

Click "next"

In the next window, you will be asked to Pick an account type There are two types of accounts, you can create: The administrator account and the limited account

If you share your computer with your son or daugther, you may want to limit their account "Rights". You can see on the next picture, what the difference in the two account types are:

Both account types will allow the user, who are logged in to change the desktop (add their own desktop image), and they will have their own "My Documents" folder for storing files, but the limited account will NOT allow the user to change any windows settings or install any new programs.

Leave user account and go back to Home page