Query about making a new user account


  1. deeoplo987
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    Query about making a new user account


    I have a main account (admin) which I use for most of my work stuff, but I've got a whole lot of private stuff like passwords and old videos and pictures from my childhood that i don't really want to be accessible in case i forget to lock my PC and one of my roommates was using the PC so I was thinking would it be possible to make another user account and just store all of the stuff on there? and obviously password protect it? this would definitely be really useful for me, i just need to know if it wouldn't be accessible from my main administrator account ?
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  3. cereberus
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    Anything is accessible from an admin account.

    You need to setup two standard accounts - one that you keep your private stuff on and one you use routinely rather than admin account i.e. only use admin account for just that - admin.
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