How to create and secure User Accounts in windows.

How to create and secure User Accounts

Creating and assigning different users with different access rights on same computer is a wonderful tool in Windows. With User Accounts, you don’t need to ask someone not to view or use your computer, simply because you don’t want your files viewed by everyone. The Windows User Account tool makes it easy to create several accounts on a single computer, giving priority to each as defined by the administrator. The administrator could be the real owner of the computer, who has the right to create, delete and edit other accounts. As an administrator, you can choose who or which of the accounts should perform the full rights as an administrator (you the owner). If you have not seen someone reading your private files before, then prepare for such things if you can’t secure your computer, simply by creating other accounts and securing either each or yours with a password. Let’s take for example. If you use the same computer with your wife and children, there is possibility that your files are more important than your children can just get into them anytime they want right? Of course but well people shouldn't use same computer private issues, but if it so then i will help you secure your accounts, both children wife and yours. Your name is Renard, your wife’s name is Nancy and one child Daniel. Simply create multiple accounts for all the three names, as in respect to who owns the names.

You should be the administrator to perform this task you remember that? Well you have to also remember no account has been created yet, so the first account to be created will automatically be the administrator, so create yours first.

Click Control Panel from start menu.

Click User Accounts from the following page. By this time there should be no accounts created than the Guest Account which is created by the system.

Click Create a new account just a little above the Guest Account.

Type in your name, Renard (administrator remember?). You should be given only the administrator option so far, so click next till it disappears. You should see the name Renard appear beside the Guest Account. You might not be able to distinguish if you’re the administrator, but rest assured you are.

Now that you succeeded in creating an account bearing your name, and as the administrator you can decide whether or not to create other accounts, but since your reason for reading this article is to be able to create several accounts, i should tell you what to do anyway.

From the User Accounts current page, click creates account then type name Nancy, your wife. You are given two choices to choose if Nancy should run as an Administrator or Limited account. Choose limited since you have to be the only administrator.

Go through the same procedure and create the third account Daniel, your son, assigning it as Limited account.

Now the three accounts are created and you should clearly see them, but the problem is that each of them can be viewed by everyone, including yours, reasons being that they are not password secured. You now have to create a password for each of them to make a more solid privacy. Your wife and son shouldn't know your administrative password anyway, but you can ask them to either type or give you their desired passwords. If they wish that you know their passwords, fine but you shouldn't wish that the administrative password is known, for several reasons you will surely understand on your own.

Now let’s see how easy accounts could be password protected.

Click Change an account from the User Account page.

Choose the account to make changes to, by clicking.

Choose Insert Password from the menu with many options, including changing names and pictures.

Type and confirm the password in the provided spaces. If you like to ad a hint to your password, then you can type into the third box the hint. For example, if your password is Renard2013 then you can add hint 2013 or Renard, to help you remember what follows, but you can leave it out if not necessary. All the three accounts are created and can be viewed by pressing Windows logo and L at once. Clicking on each account should demand for a password.

How to remove password

Go through the same procedure as you created the account.

Choose change an account from above accounts available.

Click the account to remove password from.

Click “Remove my password”

You are done! Good Luck.

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