Account Typesīefore you start creating new users on your Windows 7 computer, you should understand the difference between the two main account types. The two main tools I’ll describe in this article are the ‘User Accounts and Family Safety’ wizard-based tool, which you can find in the Control Panel, and the traditional ‘Local Users and Groups’ tool, which is available in Computer Management.
The ‘User Accounts and Family Safety’ control panel provides a straightforward interface for managing users.All of that stuff resides in the Users folder on the root of the system drive, where each account has a subfolder named after it. Every person using Windows 7 must log in with an account, and each account has a personalized desktop, Start menu, documents folder, history, favorites, and other customizations. The new OS is flexible and can support many different scenarios, with each user having appropriate permissions and a customized environment. Fortunately, Windows 7 was designed from the ground up to be a multiuser operating system. A computer running Windows 7 might be used by a single person, by a group of people in an office, or by a family in a home.
