Windows 7 Made Simple

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 ...