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Windows 7 Made Simple
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Windows 7 Made Simple

by Kevin Otnes
October 2011
Beginner
835 pages
19h 23m
English
Apress
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Chapter 12

Setting Up and Transferring User Accounts

The first time you started Windows 7, you created your first user account. Hopefully, you also created a password (and, more importantly, memorized it). Every person who will be regularly using your computer should be assigned their own account. User accounts serve several purposes.

  • Personalization: Everybody can set their own desktop colors, background pictures, taskbar arrangement, and music, picture, and video collections.
  • Privacy: Everybody can keep e-mail and social network accounts; web favorites; and work, personal, and school documents separate. Privacy doesn't mean that somebody has something to hide; on a very practical level, it allows each user to organize their documents and ...
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