File Management Made Simple, Windows Edition

CHAPTER 4

Managing and Protecting Files with User Accounts

Consider this situation: someone in a household buys a new PC, and when setting it up for the first time, creates the obligatory Windows user account. That person then provides the password for the user account to other members of the household, who in turn use to log into the PC whenever they want to use it. This effectively means that multiple people are not only sharing a PC, they’re sharing a single user account.

Although this scenario is all too common and may seem quite convenient, it’s not recommended for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it deprives each user ...