How Much Space Do Multiple Users Take Up?

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I know that on W98 it used to use a lot of hard drive space for each user.
Does anyone know how much space is used in XPsp2?

Before I setup multiple users I want to know how it will affect my resources.

Thanks!
 
Paula said:
I know that on W98 it used to use a lot of hard drive space for each
user. Does anyone know how much space is used in XPsp2?

Before I setup multiple users I want to know how it will affect my
resources.

Thanks!
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Well, it isn't really possible to answer exactly because so much depends
on how much stuff each user keeps in his My Documents, etc. Look at
your own user's space requirements and extrapolate from there. If you
have a normal-sized hard drive (40GB being about the smallest you would
even find nowadays), this really isn't an issue unless you've got
someone using the machine downloading a lot of music, etc.

Malke
 
Thank you. I remember back in the recesses of my brain that W98 used to make
a copy or something like that of the data base for each user and it was
really a system hog. Mostly, we each just want to have our own
internet/email settings and desktop settings. We don't download much at all.
We have a 40 GB BTW. :)

-P
 
Paula said:
Thank you. I remember back in the recesses of my brain that W98 used
to make a copy or something like that of the data base for each user
and it was
really a system hog. Mostly, we each just want to have our own
internet/email settings and desktop settings. We don't download much
at all.
We have a 40 GB BTW. :)
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Then you should be just fine. XP is a far better operating system than
Win9x/ME. It is designed to have multiple users.

Malke
 
Paula said:
Thank you. I remember back in the recesses of my brain that
W98 used to make a copy or something like that of the data
base for each user and it was really a system hog. Mostly,
we each just want to have our own internet/email settings
and desktop settings. We don't download much at all. We
have a 40 GB BTW. :)

-P
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Adding to what Malke has pointed out, having multiple users on
your computer will impact your systems performance if you use
the Fast User Switching feature. Fast User Switching allows you
to log off a user, leaving any running applications open, and
log on with another user. The second user will see a drop off
in performance due to the fact that some system resources are
still being allocated to the first user. You can lessen the
impact by shutting down any running applications before
switching users.

To see if you have Fast User Switching enabled, go to Start ->
Log off. If you see a "Switch User" button, Fast User Switching
is enabled. If you want to enable Fast User Switching, go to
Control Panel -> User Accounts and click on "Change the way
users log on or off". Put a check mark in the box next to "Fast
User Switching" and hit the "Apply Options" button.

Here are a few articles that you may find helpful:

How To Use the Fast User Switching Feature in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279765&sd=tech

Fast User Switching
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...p/all/proddocs/en-us/fast_user_switching.mspx

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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