How Create Users Groups in Windows 7?

Users Groups allow you to implement several policies for the member users of those Groups. You can simplify your system administration work through this. For example you can allow certain users to run a certain application and allow some other users to run some other kind of application and so on. This must be done with careful planning to attain maximum benefit. The purpose of a group and permissions for it must be clearly planned and understood before creating new groups.

To create a User Group follow these steps:

1) Open Start menu and type lusrmgr.msc in the search space and press Enter key



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2) Right click on the Groups option in the left pane and select New Group option



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3) Give a name and description to the group



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4) Click Add button to add a user to the Group

5) Type the name of the user



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Note: If you do not remember the name of the user then click Advanced button. Now press Find Now button and click on the desired user and then click OK button.



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6) Click OK button

7) Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 above to add more users

8) To remove a user simply select it and press Remove button



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9) Click Create button

10) Click Close button

11) The Group will be added to the list



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To remove a User Group simply right click on it and select Delete option



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Click Yes button to confirm



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