Multiple User Accounts on XP Pro

[Fred E. Scharpenberg]

Our Community center has one(1)new Dell 8250 with windows
XP Professional. Are there limits as to how many user
accounts available? When I approached 70 user accounts the
scroll feature on the log in screen was incredably slow.
Are there registry changes needed

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Our Community center has one(1)new Dell 8250 with windows
XP Professional. Are there limits as to how many user
accounts available? When I approached 70 user accounts the
scroll feature on the log in screen was incredably slow.
Are there registry changes needed

If you have a large number of accounts then do not use the friendly logon
screen.
You can turn this off in Control Panel ... User Accounts.
This will however mean that users will need to type in their login name.

Why would you have a PC with over 70 local accounts. Is this the only PC
used by all of these "people"?
If you have a number of PCs with all of these accounts on them - have you
considered moving to a centralized account database - such as implemented if
you have a Windows Domain ?
This will mean that you need to purchase a machine to run a server OS such
as Windows Server 2003.


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[iskandar taib]

-----Original Message-----
Our Community center has one(1)new Dell 8250 with windows
XP Professional. Are there limits as to how many user
accounts available? When I approached 70 user accounts the
scroll feature on the log in screen was incredably slow.
Are there registry changes needed

Having 70 users on the Welcome Screen boggles the mind.
Perhaps you should switch to the old fashioned login
screen. Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change the way
users log in. 70 users shouldn't be any problem at all,
if you can set up hundreds of domain users on a domain
server, 70 local accounts should be manageable (but still
an admin nightmare..).