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Quickly switch user accounts

Quickly switch user accounts - Windows Tutorial

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Quickly switch user accounts

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- [Instructor] If you have multiple user accounts set up, you can switch to another account without signing out of the first account. Go to the Start menu and click on the account button to open up the menu. Instead of signing out, click on the name for the account that you want to switch to. You will not be signed out of the original account, so you do not need to close your documents and applications. Type in the password for the account that you're switching to, and you'll be signed into that account. Go to the Start menu, to the accounts button to open the menu. It will show that you are still signed into the original account. When you're finished you can choose whether you want to sign out of this account, or switch over to the other one while leaving this one active. When you are completely finished working in a user account, you should close all windows and sign out. But to just quickly switch between accounts, you can leave everything open.

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