Windows XP User Accounts

MartyM

Hi All

Two questions:

1. I reinstalled XP Home on my PC and during the install I created 3 User Accounts called Admin, Martin and Everyone.

However, only Admin and Martin show up on the Welcome screen and in the Control Panel. Both were created with administrator privileges.

When I try to create the 'Everyone' account via the Control Panel it tells me that the account already exists??

Any ideas how I can make this account visible? Or even just how to delete it and try recreating it?

2. Which is more secure? The XP 'Guest' account or creating a Limited User Account yourself?

I always thought Guest was best but some people say otherwise!

Cheers!

Capt'n Midnight

Everyone is a name used to give anyone permissions to stuff, it's a "group" that includes all existing users.

Just use a different name instead.




XP Guest account is known to exist.

MartyM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Everyone is a name used to give anyone permissions to stuff, it's a "group" that includes all existing users.

Just use a different name instead..

Thanks for the info on the "Everyone" naming convention! I will choose another one!

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

XP Guest account is known to exist.

I dont understand. I was asking for security purposes, which is better to use, the XP Guest account or a manually created Limited account. The account will be used by other people, so I want them to use the safest most restricted account.

Thanks again!

MunsterCycling

A restricted user account would be best. Guest accounts open to many holes in the OS.

MC