[vip_students] Windows 7 and XP: How to create your own profile!
- From: "Paul J. Traynor (NCBI)" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:52:54 +0100
Hi All,
After chatting about this topic with a couple of friends recently I have
decided to write up here the instructions for those who wish to make their
own profiles on their computers. First of all what are profiles and what use
are they?.
Well I will make it simple, profiles are basically like individual rooms
within your computer. The advantage of each person in the house having a
room to work in of their own means that one person won't mess up the
computer if they make a mistake for everyone else who is sharing that same
computer. To add to this example, those of us who are access technology
users require our screens to look and operate in a certain fashion. However,
if you are a sighted person who comes to the computer after us, you find
these screens awfully basic and to be honest a bit boring so you set about
adding fancy pictures, images, icons, flashy colour backgrounds and so on
till the computer is now hardly recognisable to you or your screen access
technology. To add to our frustration, strange things happen, our screen
readers no longer read dialogue boxes, nor will it read our list of file
names contained in our documents folder. In some extreme cases, our computer
will crash and just basically not work right. For those using magnification,
their nice easy to read high contrast screens no longer operate and they
can't read whats on the screen because of the glare. Well this is where
profiles can help to a good degree.
A profile allows the following:
*. Each profile can have its own type of settings for screens, software etc.
*. Each user has his or her own user name and password so no one else can go
into another profile and change anything.
*. Profiles can be made to reduce the amount of changing, installing,
uninstalling and other stuff that causes problems to a laptop or PC.
Below I have written up one detailed way of creating profiles. for windows
XP and for those using windows 7 or vista.
[Creating a windows profile]
1. Start off by ensuring everything is closed on your desktop and all work
has been saved.
2. Open the start menu then press "R" for run. The run dialogue box should
open up.
3. In the run dialogue box, type exactly what I have done below;
Control userpasswords2
"Then press enter key"
Note: After a few seconds a new dialogue box will open up and you will be in
an area where you can add, remove or modify profiles.
4. Press the tab key approximately, "three times" to reach the add button.
This is the start of our new profile, press the spacebar on this button to
move to the next stage.
5. You will be presented with the following boxes to fill out and to jump to
each of them just hit the tab key.
*. User name. "it can be anything you like"
*. Your full name.
*. Description, "Just a little about the purpose of this profile, its purely
optional"
*. Next button, "press spacebar on this to move to the next step."
*. Cancel button, "if you wish to not go any further with creating the
profile"
6. Once you press spacebar on next you will be asked for the following
information which again using the tab key will move you through the fields;
*. Type a password, "can be anything you like"
*. Confirm password, "type in the same as you typed in previously."
*. Back button, "should you wish to go back to the previous stage"
*. Next button, "moves you on to another stage"
*. Cancel button, "cancel out of the operation altogether.
7. Now we move onto the part where we indicate how much access to the
computers functions we want to grant a new user.
Note the following;
*. Standard User, "radio button checked"
*. Restricted User, "radio button"
*. Other User, "radio button"
Notice above that the "standard user" is already selected. The standard
user is much like the restricted user but there are some differences.
In this selection, we will arrow down to "other user" and then tab over once
to a second list where we will up or down arrow to "administrator".
8. Now tab twice to the "finish button" and you're done.
Notes: Next time you start up the computer, you will be presented with a
log-in screen. In this screen will be ;
*. Your profile name.
*. New profile name for the other user which you created earlier.
For jaws users, make sure that jaws is set in the jaws options/basics to
come on at log-on.
Jaws will then come up and you can use the arrow keys to pick out your own
profile or the new profile of the other person. Press enter to activate it
and then you will be asked for your password. Type it in and you should now
be logged in.
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