Vista - Multiple User Accounts affect performance?

ds101 · 11-16-2008

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** · 11-16-2008

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 · 11-16-2008

thanks for the quick reply

**barman58** · 11-16-2008

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** · 11-16-2008

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.

11-16-2008	#1 (permalink)
ds101 vista home premium 4 posts	Multiple User Accounts affect performance? 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?
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11-16-2008	#2 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,049 posts	Re: Multiple User Accounts affect performance? 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
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11-16-2008	#3 (permalink)
ds101 vista home premium 4 posts	Re: Multiple User Accounts affect performance? thanks for the quick reply
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11-16-2008	#4 (permalink)
barman58 Windows 7 RC x64 Vista HP x86 1,683 posts	Re: Multiple User Accounts affect performance? 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
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11-16-2008	#5 (permalink)
johngalt Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... 3,848 posts	Re: Multiple User Accounts affect performance? 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.
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