None of the windows series other than XP and 2000 are capable of true multiuser support and even XP and 2000 can only be multiuser if you use the NTFS file system. The reason you were offered a password to login with was it is possible to have your customised desktop settings loaded when you start so when the teenage son logs in hes gets his Britney Spears wallpaper and his sister would get Ricky Martin. Both shallow "artists" to compliment the shallow OS :) On Sunday 23 June 2002 09:31, gilson redrick wrote:
List,
A while ago I had to re-install Win98 ; for the first time, I decided to fake that I had more than one user and require password. Since then, I had to use Win98 only twice, and in both occasions I dutifully entered my password. This afternoon, I wasn't paying too good attention to the booting up procedure and found myself in Win98 rather than S-7.3. I was about to enter the password when, in a moment of inspiration, I decided to click on Cancel, expecting the process to come to a halt until I entered a valid password, as it happens in Linux. To my great surprise, the booting up proceeded normally, and I had full access to all programs and data!!! What's the point of having to enter a user name and password, if it's so easy to bypass it? I hope you're all laughing at my naïveté. I did laugh a lot!