Creating & Managing A New User?
Jun 18, 2011
For the past 2 years or so, I've been using my laptop alone with just 1 user account ie my personal account.Now my dad has asked me to create an account for him on my laptop as well. Here are some questions which I hope are answered here.
1. Can two accounts on the same PC have administrator privileges?
2. How do I prevent my dad from viewing my personal files (docs, excel sheets, text files, etc.)
3. I have Google Chrome as my default browser and have all my passwords saved. Whenever I go to a website like SevenForums,Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, etc., I am logged in. I don't wish to change these settings as I am pretty used to them now. Will my dad be able to access my accounts as well unless I don't remove my passwords from Chrome?
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Jun 10, 2011
I would like to create a new user for programming purposes i.e the user will have access to computer resources only through applications I plan to write. Such a user should not be able to log in from main Win7 logon screen - in fact, the user should not even be listed on that page.
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