Additional Ideas for Using Accounts
If your family shares a Macintosh, you can create a separate account for each family member. Although only one person can use the Macintosh at a time, each person can customize his or her own account, storing songs in iTunes, changing screen colors, and storing web page bookmarks.
Even if you're the only person who uses your Macintosh, consider creating separate accounts. One account might contain your important files, while the second account can serve as your experimental account, where you can safely try different commands and experiment with different settings just to see what happens. If you make changes that wreck your computer settings, just delete that particular account, create a new account, and start ...
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