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example, it’s a building directory or restaurant payment app) or not at all (besides reading a menu or
seeing an ad). The other choice, “As a public browser,” gives people a full-blown web browser,
although they can’t customize it, and when they hit the “End session” button, all of their tracks
(cookies, stored passwords, and so on) are wiped away.

If you’re creating a “public browser,” you also get to choose a timeout period, after which the whole
thing resets on your original startup URL. That’s handy if, say, you’re a library, and the starting URL
is the main “Search the card catalog” page. Five minutes (or whatever) after the last patron does a
search for a book, the browser auto-switches back to the starting page, ready for the next bookworm.

Advanced Features Worth Mentioning

(Maybe)

Microsoft designed Windows in an era when only techies used PCs. Lately,
though, it has been taking strides to make Windows appear simpler and
cleaner.

But the old techie features are still there, hiding.

Here are three advanced topics you can read more about in free online
appendixes to this book:

Local Users & Groups. The Local Users & Groups console offers
the same options as the → → Accounts page described in

this chapter—but for the technically proficient, it provides a few
extra options. One is the ability to create account groups—named
collections of account holders, all of whom have the same access

to certain shared files and folders.

Profiles. Every document, icon, and preference setting related to

your account resides in a single folder: the one bearing your name
in the Local Disk (C:) Users folder. To network geeks, that folder
is known as your user profile. Each account holder has a user

profile. But your PC also has a couple of profiles that aren’t linked
to human beings’ accounts.

NTFS Permissions. NTFS permissions, a core part of Windows’
security system, let you specify exactly which co-workers are
allowed to open or edit which files and folders on your machine.