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To create your own groups of users, you have three options: type them in by

hand, let ACT generate them for you, or import them from a comma-

delimited list. Also note that all users must belong to a group.

First, to create your own users group, click on Users in the left pane, right-

click and select Add. A group with the name of New Users Group will be

Figure 10-16. Browse Performance Counters dialog

Figure 10-17. Default Users Group

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added. If you’d like to rename it to something more meaningful, right-click,

select Rename, and type in the name.

To manually add your own users, select the users group to place them in,

scroll to the bottom of that group’s list of users, and enter the username and

password. Figure 10-18 shows an example.

To add users in a domain, use the DOMAIN\Username format.

To let ACT generate a set of users for you, follow these steps:

1. Select the target users group. Click Actions

➝ Generate Users.

2. The Generate Users dialog appears. Enter the number of users, the

name prefix, and password (see Figure 10-19). Then click OK.

3. The list of generated users will now appear in the right pane.

The only thing of note