Figure 8-2. The ???other??? User Accounts dialog can do many things that are otherwise
impossible in the standard User Accounts window
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Local Users and Groups
The third way to manage user accounts in Windows is to use the Local
Users and Groups policy editor, shown in Figure 8-3; open the Start
menu, type lusrmgr.msc in the Search box, and press Enter. The Local
Users and Groups window (LUaG) is actually a Microsoft Management
Console (mmc.exe) snap-in, like the Disk Management utility (see
Chapter 1) and the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window
(Chapter 7), and therefore can be accessed remotely if necessary.
Figure 8-3 shows the LUaG dialog in all its glory.
LUaG is where you manage groups, set the automatic expiration of
passwords, and change the location of a user??™s home directory. Just
double-click any entry in the Users or Groups categories to change their
properties. Or, right-click in an empty area of the right pane to add a
new user or group.
A group is a collection of users that can be referenced with a single
name. Groups can be useful when you wish to make a folder accessible
to several users (as described later in this chapter); instead of having to
specify each one individually, all you would need to do is specify the
group. Note that once the group has been set up here, you can use the
User Accounts 2 dialog (described earlier) to assign new or existing
members to that group.
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