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How to setup user profiles

"I would like to set up my computer so that my children can each have their own separate configurations when they sign in. Could you cover how to go about setting up Windows 98 to use different profiles for individual users?"

In case you aren't familiar with them, user profiles enable different users of the same system to use different settings--wallpaper, desktop shortcuts, color schemes, and so on. With user profiles enabled, everyone who uses the system logs on using his or her user name and password and sees only his or her personal settings.

To set up user profiles, select Start, Settings, Control Panel, then double-click Users. Now just follow along to complete the Enable Multi-user Settings wizard. You'll need to select a user name, a password, and the items you want to customize. Click Finish, wait for Windows 98 to set up the new profile, then click Yes to restart Windows (or No to restart later). To set up the next user, double-click Users, click the New User button, and so on. (Tip: If you're setting up more than one profile, restart once, after you finish entering information for the last user.)

>From now on, whenever you start Windows 98, you'll get a Welcome to Windows dialog box. Type your user name and password, then click OK. Now go ahead and start customizing. Your changes won't affect anyone else's settings.

For each user, open the Control Panel, double-click Users, then follow along to complete the Enable Multi-user Settings wizard. From now on, whenever you start Windows 98, you'll get a Welcome to Windows dialog box. To log on, type your user name and password, then click OK.

Once user profiles are enabled, it's easy to switch from one user to the next without shutting down the system. Select Start, Log Off [user name], click Yes to confirm, and up pops the Welcome to Windows dialog box. Someone else's turn! (Type a new user name and password, then click OK.)

This page last updated: Monday, 24. May 1999 09:47:26 -0500