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« on: February 18, 2013, 03:01:06 pm »

Why every Mac owner should use Fast User Switching
   




   
You’re probably aware that OS X is powered by Unix at its core. This core brings a lot of geeky technologies, like memory management and multitasking, that help make the OS X experience so pleasant. But it also brings something else, something with tangible benefits to any Mac user: multiuser support, and the ability to quickly switch between those multiple users.

If you’re a parent, you may already be familiar with multiuser support in OS X; you’ve probably created a kids’ account, and set it with the appropriate Parental Controls. (If you haven’t, you should, but that’s another story.) But if it’s just you using your Mac, you may be thinking, “Why do I need multiuser support?” The answer is that there are lots of good reasons to use OS X’s multiuser support, even if you are just one person on one Mac.
Multiuser and fast user switching
First, the technicalities. While this isn’t a tutorial, OS X’s multiuser support can be found in the Users & Groups panel in System Preferences; if you click the Login Options button, you’ll see a toggle for showing the fast user switching menu, and in what form you’d like it shown. While multiuser support is the core feature of interest, it’s the fast user switching capability that really takes the cake—especially in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), where the switching is incredibly fast.
The key to a great multiuser experience on OS X: enabling the fast user switching menu bar item
With fast user switching, additional user accounts are but a few mouse clicks away: Mouse up to the menu bar, click the Fast User Switching icon, and choose the account you want to use. Once that's selected, the process of switching takes something under two seconds, regardless of how much stuff you have open in any of the accounts.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/2028311/why-every-mac-owner-should-use-fast-user-switching.html
   
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