Multiple User Accounts affect performance?

[ds101]

Hi, I just wondered if creating multiple user accounts on Windows Vista Home Premium could affect the performance? ie. slow it down?

At the moment i only have one user account, but was going to create another.

Any thoughts?

 

[Brink]

Hello ds101, and welcome to Vista Forums.

If you only have one user account logged on at a time, then it will not make any difference except for using a little bit more hard drive space.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[ds101]

thanks for the quick reply :D

 

[Barman58]

Hi ds101, and welcome to the Vista forums

You should not see any performance hit by having more than one user account, however if you have a user active and running applications and then switch to another user (rather than log out) you will see a drain the same as if you were running the programs

hope this helps

 

[johngalt]

I disagree. If you have multiple users on the system, and the HD started getting fragmented due to the activities of the different user, then yes, you will see a performance hit as the drive starts to struggle with the fragmentation.

The good news, though, is that this can be avoided by regularly fragmenting your HD.