Peringatan Kepada Pengguna Akaun GUEST Dalam Persekitaran Windows XP

Penggunaan akaun Guest dalam Windows XP amat tidak sesuai diamalkan di organisasi/pejabat khususnya di kalangan staf. Default policy bagi akaun Guest adalah berbeza dengan akaun User.

Antara kesan yang akan berlaku sekiranya pengguna menggunakan akaun Guest ialah, semua fail yang disimpan dalam profail Guest akan hilang sekiranya akaun tersebut tidak diakses untuk tempoh beberapa lama. Sila baca penerangan lanjut di bawah ini untuk lebih jelas.

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QUESTION POSED ON: 12 August 2002 "Hi, there. My problem is as follows: The user logged in as the "GUEST". The password is guest as well. Files were created and saved under "MY DOCUMENTS." While the machine was still on, we were able to see the files under "MY DOCUMENTS." The machine was shut down for the weekend. On starting up on Monday, no files were visible under "MY DOCUMENTS." I tried the same thing on another Windows 2000 machine and the same thing happened. Is it that files created under the user guest are not kept by the system? Any help will be greatly appreciated to recover these files."

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"Yes, everything within the user profile of the Guest account is discarded the moment you log out of that account. The guest account has a mandatory profile. The My Documents folder is just another folder element within the user profile. When you log out of the Guest account, all changes to the environment and all files stored within the user profiles folders are removed and restored back to their original state. If you want files from a Guest user to remain available after they log out, they must be stored in some other location outside of the user profile's folders."

EXPERT RESPONSE FROM: James Michael Stewart

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QUESTION POSED ON: 07 January 2004 "I have a laptop running Windows XP Pro. This laptop is used as a loaner and several people have been logging onto it using the Guest account. I have had a couple of people complain that when saving a document to the default "My Documents" after they log-out and back ina again later, the document is gone (I have also test this and experienced it) I beleive this is actually a "feature" of the Guest account. Is this true? Where can I find more information on this?"

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"I tried this out myself, and -- you're right! It appears that the Guest account's profile is similar to a Mandatory Profile. It only exists for the life of the session. Since the My Documents is part of the profile, it gets wiped out when users log off. Moral of the story: Have Guests save their data to a place it can be retrieved -- like a common network share, USB disk-on-key, or floppy disk. My friend James Conrad calls this the "Unwelcome Guest" feature."

EXPERT RESPONSE FROM: Jeremy Moskowitz