XP system account settings and account corresponding permission settings (1)

When I bought a computer at home last month, my family immediately became fascinated with it. Dad watched the news online and slammed football with netizens; his mother used computers to dig pits in Lianzhong; her sister wrote a diary in the computer, and by the way, practiced the basic operation methods of office software such as Word that he learned at school. But now the problem is coming out. Dad and sister will see the good-looking pages on the Internet and add them to the favorites. It takes a lot of time for them to find their own collections in the favorites. The mom is complaining. My sister put too much software on the computer, and the desktop is full of shortcuts. She wants to go to Lianzhong to find a lot of shortcuts for a long time; while her sister complains that her parents may peek at her when she is not there. diary. The family asked me to find a solution to these problems. After using Windows XP, these problems were solved.

There are a few questions to make clear before continuing to read:

First, the difference between permissions and rights. In the Windows operating system, permissions and rights represent different content. Permission (Permission) represents a user's ability to access system resources such as files, folders, printers, etc.; and Rights represents the user's ability to set up the system. Permissions and rights can be collectively referred to as privileges.

Secondly, only Windows NT and subsequent Windows 2000/XP/2003 have strict definitions of privileges. In addition to this, if you want to use file access, the file must also be on the partition of the NTFS file system. Compared with the FAT and FAT32 file systems, the NTFS file system can support larger partitions while maintaining the cluster size, and a series of security features are recommended. However, DOS and Windows 9x operating systems do not support this file system. There are two ways to get the partition of the NTFS file system: create a partition and then format it as an NTFS file system; or convert the existing FAT or FAT32 file system partition to the NTFS file system with the data retained. This conversion can use Windows' own convert.exe program, enter "convert c:/fs:ntfs" in the command line state and press Enter to convert the C drive. Other disks need to replace C with the corresponding drive letter. Also note that converting the system disk may require you to reboot the system to complete.

User Accounts

When using Windows 9x, we probably don’t know much about the concept of user accounts, because the concept of users in Windows 9x is not perfect, so few people use them. However, in Windows NT/2000/XP, user accounts are an important factor related to system security. The operating system assigns each user the appropriate permissions according to different user accounts and pre-sets to complete certain tasks. And each account is independent of each other and does not bother.

In a nutshell, accounts in the system can be compared with accounts in instant messaging software such as QQ. For example, we can apply for a QQ number and match the password set by ourselves. This becomes a QQ account. With this account, we can log in to QQ and chat with other friends added in advance to use the various services provided by QQ. However, a person can also apply for multiple QQ numbers, and these numbers do not affect each other. For example, the friends we added in the first number are not automatically added to the second number.

By using an account in Windows, we can log in (either local login or network login) to the Windows operating system, use the corresponding system resources, and view your own files. In addition, we can do more with Windows accounts, such as each account has a separate collection, my document folder, desktop shortcut settings, cookies, etc., each user with their own account pair The general settings made by the system do not affect other users.

Then to solve the contradiction in my family, just create a personal account for each family member. Note that in Windows XP, Microsoft used a variety of easy methods to simplify the setup of accounts and permissions, which makes the setup simpler, but the options that can be set are much less, and only the simplest goals can be achieved. If you want to make more complicated settings, you need to use a similar traditional account and permission setting method in Windows 2000. Fortunately this can also be used in Windows XP, we will explain in detail later.

The following is a detailed description of the goals we want to achieve. I believe that most users who care about this article are also for the same purpose:

Everyone who uses a computer has its own separate account, and Do not affect each other.

Everyone has a dedicated folder to save their own private files, others can't view, modify or delete other people's private files.

Log in with an account with administrative privileges, open the "User Accounts" settings window in the Control Panel and you will see the interface in Figure 1. Click "Create a new account" under the "Choose a task" option, then the system will need to provide the username of the account, click Next when you are done, and then select the type of account (Figure 2). By default, Windows XP provides two types of accounts: computer administrators and restricted accounts. As the name implies, a computer administrator is the person with the highest control over a computer. This type of account can make any settings on the system to view, modify, or delete all files on the computer. Therefore, we must be careful when creating such an account, because the wrong settings of users who use such accounts may cause serious systemic obstacles. It is also not recommended to use an administrator account for daily use for security reasons. So here we choose the account type as "restricted users". Then we create a restricted account for each of the dad, mom and sister.