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Got Win8 RP up and running on my home PC on a separate partition from the main OS, WinXP x86. I was a little surprised at the request to log in with my Microsoft account (Windows Live) credentials. I understand that can be used to "sync" various things across devices, which could be handy, but I'm a little concerned about security and am wondering what's the best type of account for me and my wife to use.
A little context: we have this one home-built desktop PC (WinXP Pro x86), and one Dell laptop (WinXP Pro x86). The Dell laptop is used pretty much strictly for web browsing and that's it. Sometimes a few pics or documents may be viewed on the laptop, but the data is all stored in shared folders on the desktop's data storage HDD (D: drive).
The desktop is used for various things like finance work, office document work with OpenOffice, some photo editing work, web browsing, music with iTunes or WinAmp, light music file editing, burning CD's or DVD's, etc.
Right now the desktop has a single Admin user with a password, and the laptop has a user with no password. Both my wife and I use both machines using the single user account on each. The laptop has some Firefox bookmarks added by both of us, and the desktop has the same.
I was just reading earlier this week how it's better, especially in XP, to use a Normal user account for day to day stuff as opposed to Admin accounts, and so I was thinking of switching over and creating Normal user accounts for each of us, at least on the Desktop. But then I load Win8 where I sign in with my Microsoft credentials. My wife does not have a Microsoft account. When I check in Users, it says the user profile using my e-mail is an Administrator account.
As I understand it, I can create "normal" (non-admin) accounts in Win8, but they will be local users only, and there would be no synchronizing of favorites, apps, etc. across devices. Now I haven't really decided yet if we need to have stuff sync'd between desktop and laptop. We do not have any tablets, and only have our two iPhones.
So how can I create different user accounts, that could sync across devices if we decide to, but are not Admin accounts that could be vulnerable to attack? Does each user have to have a Microsoft account for this to work?
My wife and I share a single iTunes account because we wanted to be able to share music and apps between our iPhones. I would think we would also want to share Microsoft apps, if we chose to go with Win8 and not Win7. I REALLLLLLY love Win7, but not so sure about 8 yet. Maybe we need to just continue using the same user account on both machines (tied to my Microsoft credentials), but how do I get it to not be an Admin account?
A little context: we have this one home-built desktop PC (WinXP Pro x86), and one Dell laptop (WinXP Pro x86). The Dell laptop is used pretty much strictly for web browsing and that's it. Sometimes a few pics or documents may be viewed on the laptop, but the data is all stored in shared folders on the desktop's data storage HDD (D: drive).
The desktop is used for various things like finance work, office document work with OpenOffice, some photo editing work, web browsing, music with iTunes or WinAmp, light music file editing, burning CD's or DVD's, etc.
Right now the desktop has a single Admin user with a password, and the laptop has a user with no password. Both my wife and I use both machines using the single user account on each. The laptop has some Firefox bookmarks added by both of us, and the desktop has the same.
I was just reading earlier this week how it's better, especially in XP, to use a Normal user account for day to day stuff as opposed to Admin accounts, and so I was thinking of switching over and creating Normal user accounts for each of us, at least on the Desktop. But then I load Win8 where I sign in with my Microsoft credentials. My wife does not have a Microsoft account. When I check in Users, it says the user profile using my e-mail is an Administrator account.
As I understand it, I can create "normal" (non-admin) accounts in Win8, but they will be local users only, and there would be no synchronizing of favorites, apps, etc. across devices. Now I haven't really decided yet if we need to have stuff sync'd between desktop and laptop. We do not have any tablets, and only have our two iPhones.
So how can I create different user accounts, that could sync across devices if we decide to, but are not Admin accounts that could be vulnerable to attack? Does each user have to have a Microsoft account for this to work?
My wife and I share a single iTunes account because we wanted to be able to share music and apps between our iPhones. I would think we would also want to share Microsoft apps, if we chose to go with Win8 and not Win7. I REALLLLLLY love Win7, but not so sure about 8 yet. Maybe we need to just continue using the same user account on both machines (tied to my Microsoft credentials), but how do I get it to not be an Admin account?
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