hey youtubers today I need to create a new user on my macbook and I thought I
would make a video show you guys how to do it if you were unsure how to create
multiple users and how to fast switch back and forth between them so the first
thing you're going to want to do is head to your system preferences system
preferences is usually found in your dock if it isn't found in your dock you
can go to finder applications and you'll be able to scroll down until you see
System Preferences once in System Preferences you'll head to the users and
groups which is on the last column in the first location there so from here if
your Mac already has a passcode you will have to click the little lock here and
then you'll be prompted to enter the passcode so don't get confused if you
create multiple administrator users with multiple passwords and you go to unlock
something either on one user or the other user you can always use an
administrative user to unlock those settings if you create a standard user
you won't be able to unlock certain settings so just a note for that when
creating the accounts there are a few settings that you can set up as well
like fast user which I had mentioned and what that does is basically places the
name of the user over here I don't normally use this myself
because when you use the fast user switch it actually keeps both users open
and that'll slow down performance on your Mac it'll also drain your battery a
lot quicker kind of wish apple just had it where you
logged out of one user and log back into the other users so how do you do that
well the simple way to do that is to simply go to your Apple logo right here
and go log o that will bring you back to a login screen that other user won't be
active or in memory there'll be no background tasks running
on that user and you can login as another user so how do
you actually create the user you just go to the little plus symbol here and then
you'll be given a bunch of options there's standard an administrator and
then if you have young children you can also set up a parental control account
which you can add a lot of blocking features for the internet and stuff like
that and then sharing only is more for accessing it over in the network and not
utilizing the system not something you probably use and then groups is getting
into larger networks corporate networks and stuff so you'll just probably leave
that one alone what we're looking to do here in my cases I need to create a new
administrator user administrator users will let me change all of the main
settings like we're talking about here before where a standard user will have
limited access to that to minimize any changes that could affect the system
negatively deleting things and wrecking your computer's so this one's really
good for you know kids and stuff like that maybe under 12 just to use the
system for browsing the internet here you create your for your name and this
is the name that will show up as your finder or the little house here so this
is your main directory and make sure if you want it capitalized which I do you
do that so here you can actually generate passwords if you want something
memorable the password assistant is definitely recommended just because it
will create some unique pass codes you should definitely use a strong password
for your Mac you don't have to I don't actually technically have to have a
passcode in but for the sake of it we will if you're trying to guess I typed
in password
something I can change later then you just took create user so it's really
that simple now you'll be able to switch over to
that user and you'll be able to customize it it'll be a completely
separate user from the user using right now and you'll be able to share your
computer with keeping your personal data and all that kind of stuff separate so
hopefully this helped out some of you I know that it's a more simple tutorial
and not something as I usually do but I wanted to do that because I had to
create it anyway so thank you for watching make sure you like this video
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