By Curt Simmons
- Shows strength clients the best way to take home windows XP to the following point, concentrating on performance, networking, and total performance
- Features to-the-point insurance that skips introductory factors and focuses in its place at the real-world counsel and tips energy clients have to develop into extra productive
- Written in a pleasant, approachable type through skilled XP writer and gear consumer Curt Simmons
- Topics coated comprise scripting, handling purposes, benefiting from electronic media, strength administration, administration, the registry and dossier structures, safety, auditing, backup and knowledge garage, method functionality, process restoration, Microsoft's renowned obtain XP energy Toys, networking, and wireless
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Finally, you can also delete an account. When you delete an account, Windows will save all of the user’s desktop contents and the My Documents folder to a folder named with the username on the desktop. This enables you to easily place the contents on a disk and give it to the user who will no longer be accessing the computer. If you want to use this option, click Keep Files — if not, click Delete Files. CHANGE THE WAY USERS LOG ON OR OFF The log on and off setting is a global setting that applies to all users.
Desktop The Desktop tab, shown in Figure 1-12, gives you the option to configure the Windows XP desktop area with pictures, graphics, background colors, and even different texture appearances. Windows XP gives you several built-in options that you can choose for your background in the list on the Desktop tab. If you scroll through the list, you see that there are two kinds of files present. Some files give your desktop a pattern while others give your desktop a picture. Figure 1-12: Desktop. Chapter 1: Configuring the Windows XP Interface If you look in the provided list on the Desktop tab, you see that each file has a name and an icon picture next to it.
A default, unique picture is assigned to each user. If you click the Change Picture option, a window appears (shown in Figure 2-3) where you can select a new picture icon from the provided list, or you can browse your computer and locate another picture. You can use just about any kind of picture format (JPEG, GIF, BMP, and so on). You might want to use company icons, or in a home setting, you might actually use a photograph of the person to represent the user account. Simply choose a desired picture and click the Change Picture button.