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All sorts of problems crop up when several people share a PC. You may have set up your desktop just right, with all your shortcuts right where you can find them, and then your significant other comes along and changes the wallpaper, accidentally deletes some files you may need, and adds their own apps and shortcuts on the desktop. It’s worse than sharing a TV remote.

Also, I’m sure you don’t want others to open Microsoft Edge and take a peek into your Facebook account or see all the recent videos you’ve played on your computer. To get around this issue, it's a good idea to create a separate user account for each individual using your computer.

If someone else can get their hands on your computer, it isn’t your computer anymore. This can be a real problem if the cleaning staff uses your PC after hours or a snoop breaks into your study. Unless you use BitLocker (in Windows 11 Pro), anybody who can restart your PC can look at, modify, and delete your files or stick a virus on the PC. How? In many cases, a miscreant can bypass Windows 11 directly and start your PC with another operating system. With BitLocker out of the picture, compromising a PC doesn’t take much work.

Windows 11 helps keep peace in the family — and in the office — by requiring people to log in. The process of logging in (also called signing in) lets the operating system keep track of each person’s settings: You tell Windows 11 who you are, and it lets you play in your own sandbox.