Setting Up a New User Account


When you first install and use Windows, you are prompted to set up the accounts for your PC. You can add names for each person using the computer (and then later go back and modify the accounts), or you can add the accounts later, as described here.

The purpose of accounts is to let each person customize how Windows works. The user accounts also save favorite Web sites, create My Documents folders, and more. You can customize Windows and then create a new account. In this case, the new account will use these settings. Otherwise, you can create a new account, and any changes you make to certain settings (the Favorites List, display, mouse, and so on) are saved with that particular account.

Follow these steps to set up a new account:

1.

Click Start and then click Control Panel.

2.

Click User Accounts in the Control Panel window. Any accounts you have created are listed (see Figure 22.1).

Figure 22.1. You can use this Control Panel option to modify existing accounts and to set up new accounts.


3.

Click the Create a new account link. You are first prompted to type a name. As the prompt explains, "This name will appear on the Welcome screen and on the Start menu" (see Figure 22.2).

Figure 22.2. The name identifies the account and is displayed when you start Windows XP.


4.

Type a name for the account and click the Next button. You are then prompted to select an account type.

5.

Select what type of account you want to create: Computer administrator or Limited. When you select an account type, you see a description of what that account can and cannot do. For instance, Figure 22.3 shows what you can do with a computer administrator account.

Figure 22.3. You can limit the types of changes a user can make to your PC using the account type.


6.

Click the Create Account button. The new account is added.



    Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows XP
    Absolute Beginners Guide to Windows XP (2nd Edition)
    ISBN: 078973432X
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 176
    Authors: Shelley OHara

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