I am trying to setup a computer to be shared between my 2 daughters who are just turning 5. I want to let them each have their own account, and I want to make it easy for them to switch between them. My idea was to have an 'always on top' set of icons on the left side of the screen that they could click on to switch to their user account. Any ideas?
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Why not just use the built-in user switching? If you want to create a shortcut to switch users, you can make a shortcut on the desktop to tsdiscon. Running this shortcut will disconnect the current user session, then they can click on their username on the login screen to access their account.
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If you know AutoIt you could use that to build a GUI program that when runs issues the command shutdown /l which logs off the user, and then you can make the program in the taskbar. Hope that helps.
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I use Direct User Switching Task to switch between domain accounts. You can use either the system tray icon or a keyboard shortcut to switch between accounts in a similar way to switching between apps with ALT+TAB.
This may be a bit too fiddly for five year olds, but I thought I would mention it for the benefit of other readers. It would also be quite trivial to automate its use using AutoIt.
It's not free, but worth getting if you switch between accounts a lot.
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