When you enable log-in for the guest account, Mac OS X sets it up just like a regular account in that it's given a home folder and user and group attributes for creating and managing files. As with ...

To enable the Guest Mode feature, open the Start Menu, and click on your logon picture. Next, click on Manage another account. From the list shown, select the account which you’d like to add to Guest ...

The ability to enable a Windows Guest account is gone in build 10159, but it's not clear whether that's a bug or a feature While spelunking through the latest beta build of Windows 10, I was quite ...

Microsoft made a few quiet but great changes to its kid-proofing SteadyState tool for Windows 7, changing the name to Guest Mode and trimming it into a dead-simple way to protect your PC from anyone's ...

When friends or family come to stay, they might want to borrow your computer for a while. That’s fine, but sometimes you want to keep your stuff private, and you want your personal settings to stay as ...

Since Snow Leopard’s release, a few users have reported a scary data loss incident related to using the Guest account. Basically, after upgrading to Snow Leopard with an existing Guest account in ...