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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows® Vista
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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows® Vista

by Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel
December 2006
Beginner to intermediate
1512 pages
63h 44m
English
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Navigating the File System
5
A user profile is different from a user account. A user account contains information about
what files and folders your account can access, the changes your account can make to your
computer, and your user preferences such as your desktop background and color theme.
Windows Vista assigns the same number and type of directories shown in Figure 5.16 to
each user profile. The user profile file also remembers which files go in which directory for
that user. For example, if I have my own documents in my Documents directory and Lisa
has her own documents in her Documents directory, I will see only my documents in my
Documents ...
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