We continue to report on issues that occur after switching between accounts using the Fast User Switching capability in Mac OS X. Many of the issue we covered were new for some users in Mac OS X ...

We'd like to revisit a group of issues that occur when fast user switching is invoked under Mac OS X 10.4.x. Most fast user switching issues have to do with process ownership: when one user is the ...

Here's an oddity that I just recently started noticing: I have Fast User Switching enabled, and when I attempt to login to a secondary local user account by selecting that username from the list, the ...

Do you share your PC with family members? If so, you’ve probably configured it with multiple accounts, meaning each person gets their own private, protected slice of Windows. (Not sure how this works?

Fast User Switching was disabled on XP Pro as a result of installing PCanywhere.<BR><BR>However, the Symantec program is now uninstalled and yet I dont' have Fast User Switching again. <BR><BR>The ...

Apple has provided a way for years to lock your Mac's screen when unattended. Here's how to use the options within macOS. For security reasons, macOS allows you to lock your Mac's screen so that ...

We encountered a peculiar issue where the user account did not exist in the User Accounts utility (netplwiz), but the account was visible in the Command Prompt. Various factors, including a corrupted ...