Re: Windows 2000 User Settings

Copy the Administrator user profile to user Bill. Search the Windows Help files for "User Profiles" for more information.

Tip: You must have administrative privileges to copy profiles. You cannot copy or delete a user profile that belongs to the currently logged on user or any user whose profile is in use. Create a second Administrator account then when logged on to the second Administrator copy the profile from the other Administrator account to Bill's account.

John

Bill wrote:
95% finished setting up my new Windows 2000 computer, all from the Administrator
account. For safety's sake, I want my main daily work user account to not be able to
install programs, so I created user "Bill"

Of course, when I log into that "Bill" account, it doesn't have the desktop, startup
programs, etc. of the Administrator account.

How can I set up a Windows 2000 user account that has the same startup and desktop
settings as my Administrator account?

Thanks!



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