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CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED WITH WINDOWS VISTA
3.
Select the user, and then click the Logoff button. (Alternatively, right-click the user and
choose Log Off from the shortcut menu.) Windows displays a confirmation dialog box,
as shown here.
4. Click the Log Off User button. The other user’s session is ended, and they lose any data that
they hadn’t saved.
Sending a Message to Another User
Windows provides a feature for sending a message to another user logged on to this computer.
Because the other user can’t be using the computer at the same time as you, this feature is no use
for real-time communication, but it can be useful for making sure a family member or a colleague
gets a message the next time they use the computer. (For example, you might ask them not to shut
down the computer because you’re still using it.) It’s also useful for notifying another user that
you’ve had to terminate a program that they were using.
To send a message to another user, take the following steps:
1.
Right-click the Taskbar and choose Task Manager from the shortcut menu to display
Windows Task Manager.
2.
Click the Users tab. Windows displays the Users page.
3.
Right-click the user and choose Send Message from the shortcut menu. Windows displays
the Send Message dialog box (shown here).
4. Change the message title in the Message Title text box (Windows enters default text that
includes the computer’s name, your username, and the date and time), and then type the
message in the Message text box.
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To start a new line, press Ctrl+Enter. (Pressing the Enter key on its own “clicks” the OK
button, sending the message.)
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To type a tab, press Ctrl+Tab. (Pressing the Tab key on its own moves the focus to the
next control.)
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