Restart quickly via fast user switching

Mar 12, '04 10:27:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I set my wife up with a separate user account and Fast User Switching so she could use Mail and Safari. I mistakenly rebooted from her account after adding a new screensaver. At the time, she had about four apps booted, while on my side, I had over 35. But the thing went into reboot as though my account didn't exist at all -- 30 seconds is all it took, compared to up to five minutes from my side. It dawned on me that anyone could create a basic user for just such a use. Some dock icons were moved around, but rebooting again after setting things back resulted in no changes.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]

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