Removing User Profiles

In a previous tip, we showed you how to enable user profiles so that multiple users can use different settings--wallpaper, desktop shortcuts, color schemes, and so on--on the same system: 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.

Don't want to use user profiles anymore? No problem. Just disable them. Open the Control Panel and double-click Passwords. Select the User Profiles tab, select All Users Of This Computer Use The Same Preferences And Desktop Settings, then click OK. Click Yes to restart your system, and user profiles are officially disabled.

(Note: Click Cancel when you see the Welcome to Windows dialog box. In another tip, we'll show you how to get rid of this pesky dialog box.)

this page last updated: Monday, 24. May 1999 09:46:59 -0500