While demoting your user account to a non-admin account provides a more secure environment in OS X, it is likely that some system resources may still be accessible by the account. Here is how to ...

User profile folders on Windows 10 or 11 are important directories that store personal files, app settings, and system configuration of each created account. It is located in the system drive ...

In macOS Ventura you can move your user's Home directory to a larger or faster external drive. Here's how. In UNIX operating systems, user accounts are stored in individual folders called the user ...

Moving your Windows User folder to another SSD or from a legacy HDD or modern SSD can improve performance, provide a more responsive Windows experience, and increase ...

A user profile folder (or User Folder) in Windows 11/10 contains files and folders stored in different locations like Desktop, Documents, Favorites, Downloads, Searches, Pictures, and more. It is ...

On Windows 11/10, the User Account/Profile at the location %SystemDrive%\Users\<UserName> contains files, folders, and data that the associated user can access easily ...

When drafting “Switching from a 27-inch iMac to a 14-inch MacBook Pro: A Fresh Start” (30 June 2025), I wrote: The two configuration tweaks that required a bit more effort were displaying the Library ...

Deleting a Windows 7 user folder removes all personalized settings and data in addition to any files or folders stored in folders specific to the user's account, such as the user's "My Documents" and ...

Because of its Unix heritage, Mac OS X is a true multi-user operating system from the ground up. Yet some people have used Mac OS X for many months without fully realizing what this means -- as the ...

encrypted user folder on an external disk- can it be done? a user folder on an unencrypted disk works just fine. i managed to sort of do it by logging into a second empty account on the internal, ...

We here at Macworld have been using Macs since before OS X was named after cats, but sometimes we learn a new trick that we can’t believe we didn’t know. Like this one that I saw on Twitter yesterday.

This is more of an administrative sanity thing than a problem, per se... I've got a file share full of user home directories, where they can save stuff that they don't need to share with each other.