Windows® XP Home User Management Utilities

Windows® XP is an operating system from Microsoft Corporation. This operating system is mainly designed for personal computers. The superior technology in-built in this operating system could make the computers more stable. With the advanced accessibility features and the utilities embedded in the operating system, computers could provide maximum performance. When a user logs in the system for the first time, a user account is created in his name. Every user account has a profile. This profile contains files, folders and other settings that define the working environment of the user. In the user management process, a local limited user account is created. In this a separate user account is created for each user. In some cases different users could be able to use a single account. In the next step you could create local user profile. By using this you could the user management in better way.

• System tools
• Storage tools
• Services and applications

System tools

The system utilities comprises of many tools. Event Viewer is one among them. This tool is used to administer and view events that are already recorded in the application, security, and system logs. User could examine the logs to track security events and to recognize possible software, hardware, and system issues. Another example is Shared Folder tool. With the help of this tool you can view connections and resource in use on the computer. You can create, view, manage and share, open files and sessions, and close files and disconnect sessions.

Storage tools

Storage tools are broadly classified into three categories. They are removable storage, disk defragmenter, and disk management tools. Removable storage tools offer you the facility to know the removable storage media and handle the libraries, or data-storage systems, that contain them. Defragment tool is used to check tool and defragment volumes on the hard disk of your PC. Disk management tool is helpful in managing various disk related activities converting, creating and formatting volumes.

Computer management utilities include services and applications utilities. Services tool help the users to manage services on local and remote computers. User could start, stop, pause, resume, or disable a service at any.