Chapter 7. Managing Users

IF you’re using your personal computer at home, chances are you’re not the only person using it. When you’re not pounding the keys, chances are that either your spouse or your children are perched in front of the screen. This makes your PC a multiple-user machine.

Older consumer versions of Windows (pre-XP) were not built with multiple users in mind. It was only the corporate versions of Windows (Windows NT, Windows 2000) that were built to handle multiple users on multiple computers over a corporate network; this functionality was necessary for the corporate environment.

Multiuser functionality ...

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