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tempt mischief-makers. That’s plenty of protection in most homes, schools, and

workplaces; after all, Mac people tend to be nice people. (If you still worry, though,

turn on FileVault.)

• Show Input menu in login window. If the Input menu (page 368) is available at

login time, it means that people who use non-U.S. keyboard layouts and alphabets

can use the login features without having to pretend to be American. (It also means

that you have a much wider universe of difficult-to-guess passwords, since your

password can be in, for example, Japanese characters. Greetings, Mr. Bond-san.)

• Use VoiceOver at login window. The VoiceOver feature (page 381) is all well and

good if you’re blind. But how are you supposed to log in? Turn on this checkbox,

and VoiceOver will speak the features on the Login panel, too.

• Show password hints. As described earlier, Mac OS X is kind enough to display

your password hint after you’ve typed it wrong three times when trying to log in.

This option lets you turn off that feature for an extra layer of security.

• Enable Fast User Switching. This feature lets you switch to another account without

having to log out of the first one, as described on page 338.

• View as. If you do, in fact, turn on Fast User Switching, a new menulet appears at

the upper-right corner of your screen, listing all the account holders ...