Chapter 7. Sharing Your Computer with Others

If you share your computer with other people, you can create separate user accounts so that each person works only with his own documents, programs, and Windows Vista settings. This chapter shows you how to create and change user accounts, how to log on and off different accounts, how to share documents between accounts, and how to connect and work with a network.

Sharing Your Computer with Others
  • Display User Accounts 140

  • Create a User Account 42

  • Switch Between Accounts 144

  • Change a User's Name 146

  • Protect an Account with a Password 148

  • Change a User's Picture 150

  • Delete an Account 152

  • Share a Document or Folder 154

  • Set Up Parental Controls 156 ...

Get Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Windows Vista™ now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.