| Tekmazter 2001-06-06, 12:07 pm |
| Setting Up Windows for Multiple Users and Creating Additional User Profiles
You expect that your entire family will want to use the new family computer, but you don’t want your children or your spouse to change your desktop settings. In Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, you can set up user profiles, which are a collection of settings that affect the desktop display, desktop folders, the Start menu, and e-mail messages. For example, you can set up a user profile for yourself that includes the settings for your personalized desktop, and then create a password for your desktop. Other users who log on to Windows will not be able to modify your settings—unless, of course, they log on with your name and password.
Profiles, however, do not prevent others from accessing files and folders. Files and folders can still be found in Windows Explorer or by using the Search option.
When you set up a user profile, Windows treats the existing configuration as the default. For example, if you have already set up a desktop theme before setting up a user profile, that desktop theme becomes the default desktop display setting. As you set up the user profiles, you can elect to change parts of the default settings (such as the changes you have made to the Start menu) or keep them the same.
In this exercise, you decide to set up a profile for yourself so that other family members cannot change your desktop settings, and then you set up a profile for your son who will want to apply a clever color scheme to his desktop display.
Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel to display the contents of the Control Panel folder.
Click the View All Control Panel Options link, and then double-click the Users icon to start the Enable Multi-User Settings wizard.
Click Next.
The Add User dialog box appears.
Type your name, and then click Next.
Each user profile will be identified by name.
In the Password box, type a password, press Tab, and then type the password again.
You do not have to use a password, but it is a good idea if you have anyone in the household that you would like to block from either using or changing your desktop settings.
Click Next.
The Personalized Items Settings dialog box appears. You can select items to personalize in the new profile.
Click to view graphic
Click Create New Items To Save Disk Space.
You do not select the check boxes in the Items area because you want to retain the current settings for the items, such as the current desktop settings and the Start menu settings.
Click Next, and then click Finish.
The wizard creates your user profile. A message prompting you to restart your computer is displayed. The new profile will not take effect until you restart your computer.
Click Yes.
Windows Me quits, your computer restarts, and then the Enter Password dialog box appears, displaying your name.
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To delete a user profile, in Control Panel, double-click the Users icon, select the user, and then click Delete.
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You can create an additional user profile from Control Panel. However, because you have already set up a user profile, the Enable Multi-User Settings wizard does not appear again when you double-click the Users icon. Instead, you add additional user profiles directly from the User Settings dialog box.
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In the Enter Password dialog box, type your password, and then click OK to display the Windows desktop.
Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel to display the contents of the Control Panel folder.
You may need to scroll down or maximize the screen to see the Users icon.
Click View All Control Panel Options, and the double-click the Users icon.
The User Settings dialog box appears, displaying the user profile you just set up.
Click New User, click Next, type James and then click Next.
In the Password box, type JKA and press Tab. Type JKA again.
Click Next.
The Personalized Items Settings dialog box appears.
In the Items area, select the Start Menu check box.
The Start menu, which you modified in an earlier exercise, will be reset to Windows defaults so that your son can customize it.
Click Create Copies Of The Current Items And Their Contents, click Next, and then click Finish.
You remain logged on as yourself until you restart the computer or log off Windows from the Start menu.
Close the User Settings dialog box and Control Panel.
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To change your user profile password, make sure that you are logged on using your user profile. In Control Panel, double-click the Passwords icon, and then click Change Windows Password.
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To set up Windows so that a list of users is displayed when Windows starts, right-click My Network Places, and then click Properties. On the Configuration tab, click Add. In the Select Network Component Type dialog box, click Client, and then click Add. In the Manufacturers list on the left, click Microsoft. In the Network clients list on the right, click Microsoft Family Logon, and then click OK. In the Primary Network Logon box, click Microsoft Family Logon, and then click OK.
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