About running several users on Windows

If you have three users running with just one user having the bulk of usage and the other two having only one superlight browser like K-meleon, does the other two users use very little resource?

Does running a user without running anything (browser etc) on it still eat up resource by the running of the user itself?

 

I see you are also a mac user but I cannot help you there as I have no experience with (I guess) Per User screen sharing. But I expect macos has similar multiuser GUI logic like windows.

So on a Windows machine only one user can USE computer GUI at the same time. More users can be LOGGED IN but cannot use GUI desktop. It also applies for remote desktop connections (as soon as someone takes over desktop even native user gets logged off). So I guess resources are used depending what other users are doing (just sharing files or SSH wouldn't take many resources, and there is no GUI desktop anyways - so no browsers or any other window app that would use many resources)

BUT...

You can run a virtual machine and it is of course another machine in the network and can be used fully by another user while you use your native OS. It uses as much resources as you give it. More than 1 remote connections to a same virtual machine also needs some tweaking in user rights etc...

OR...

if you are skillful and need remote desktop concurrent sessions try to Enable Multiple User Access/Concurrent User Sessions For Remote Desktop on Windows 7

Another good link: Remote Desktop Concurrently In Windows 7 The Easy Way With This Native Windows RDP Patch | Redmond Pie

I hope this helps


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