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User accounts and passwords
Windows® XP is the first home operating system from
Microsoft® which allows you the user to secure your
computer with a password if you want to.
You can add as many users as you want to your Advent
computer and each person can have their own password.
This will allow them to control their own desktop and sound
settings, but you can also prevent them making changes to
Windows®, and even make your files private.
This is all set up through the Users icon in the Control
Panel (covered later on).
The downside to having a secure password is that if you
forget it, you may not be able to get back in easily. To
prevent this from happening there are 2 things you can do:
• Create a password reset disk (we’ll show you how
later)
• Add a password hint to jog your memory should you
forget it.
If you make sure that you do these 2 simple things for every
user you won’t run into any problems with passwords.
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