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16. Managing User Accounts
Windows XP is a true multiple-user OS that lets several people use one PC without intruding onor even viewingone another's files, settings, and tastes. To start a Windows session, you log on to your user account, which gives you personalized access to the system. You, like each user, have your own desktop, Start menu, My Documents folder, Control Panel settings, email account, internet details (Favorites, History, cookies, and cached web pages), program settings, permissions, network connections, and other odds and ends. Your private files, folders, and preferences are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name >, which lets Windows personalize your desktop each time that you log on.In this chapter, you'll learn to create, edit, and delete user accounts as an administrator. If you're an ordinary user who's not called on to administer, you still need to know (and will learn) how to maintain your own account.
Workgroup vs. Domain
The type of network (Chapter 17) that you're on determines how you administer accounts.A workgroup is a simple home or small-business network whose computers each maintain separate user accounts and security settings. These informal networks exist primarily to help users share printers, folders, files, and other resources. User accounts don't float around the network; you need a separate account on each networked PC to access its files.
A domain is a large, business-oriented, centrally administered network. Files can reside on local hard disks or on a network server that distributes files across the network. Centralized user accounts let you log on to any domain computer. XP Home supports only workgroups; Pro supports both workgroups and domains.