Windows - View User and Group Information

Computer management: A tool that lets you manage a local or remote computer Pasted image 20260621220326

Windows domain: A network of computers and users that are added to a central database

  • if you’re an admin in that domain, you can view those accounts on any machine in the domain

  • Task scheduler. ​This lets you schedule programs ​and tasks to run at certain times, ​like automatically shutting off the computer at ​11:00 PM every night.

  • Event viewer. This is where our system stores its system logs. ​

  • Shared folders. ​This shows the folders that different ​users on the machine share with each other. ​

  • Local users and groups. This is where we’ll be doing ​our user and group management. ​

  • Performance. This shows monitoring ​for the resources of our machine, ​like CPU and RAM. 

  • ​Device manager. This is where we ​go to manage devices to our computer, ​like our network cards, ​sound cards, monitors, and more. 

  • Storage menu, ​we have a sub menu for disk management. 

  • Services and applications menu ​shows us the programs and ​services that we have available on the system.

    • we can choose to enable and disable services such as DNS here

User Account Control (UAC) - a feature in Windows that prevents unauthorized changes to a system

  • changes have to be approved by an admin instead