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Nori
December 6th 03, 05:43 PM
Is there a limit set for the number of user accounts that
can live on an XP system? Anyone with experience about
this?

rifleman
December 6th 03, 05:44 PM
"Nori" > wrote in message
...
> Is there a limit set for the number of user accounts that
> can live on an XP system? Anyone with experience about
> this?

The only limitation AFAIK is disk space to hold the profile files. However I
think that if you had more than four or five the log-on process would start
to get silly......

Ramesh [MVP]
December 6th 03, 05:44 PM
Hi Nori,

See below the earlier post by Mike Brannigan (Microsoft)

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You can create thousands of local user accounts.
This would be an unmanageable situation and you would be advised to look
into a more robust solution based around a Network Operating systems such as
Windows Server 2003.

The main limiting factor on local accounts will be the storage of all those
profiles and "My Documents"

How many were you thinking of creating ?
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Regards,
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
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Is there a limit set for the number of user accounts that
can live on an XP system? Anyone with experience about
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