Re: Re: Problem creating users

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On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:28:48 -0300, John John - MVP
<audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


You can copy the Administrator's user profile to Roy's user profile.
Right click My Computer and click on Properties. At the System
Properties click on the Advanced tab and then on the User Profiles
Settings button and copy the profile from one user to the other. Note
that you need Administrative privileges to do this. Also note that you
cannot copy to or from the user that you are logged on with, if you want
to copy from Administrator to Roy you will have to log on to a third
account that has administrative rights.

John


I have been playing with copying profiles as per your guidance since
yesterday and have found that while administrator's desktop icons were
copied to Roy's desktop, none of the 'settings' (this may be my term)
such as power options. icon sizes, background color, etc were copied.
I really think someone needs to write a book 'Creating Duplicate User
in XP For Dummies'.

That said - I went back to doing things manually as I have done in the
past. Now I have another question -

In Administrator, I created a new user Roy with administrator
privileges.
I logged in as Roy to get it into c:\Documents and Settings
In Roy - In Windows Explorer, I manually copied Administrator's
Desktop content to Roy's to get all the desktop shortcut icons to Roy.
In Roy - In Control Panel I manually set all the power options. icon
sizes, background color, etc
In Administrator, I changed Roy's privileges to non-administrator.
In Roy, I find I cannot execute some desktop shortcuts, but I can
execute others. Says I don't have the privileges. One example is
Eudora, which I use for e-mails, but I cannot in Roy.
I wonder why not.

Any ideas?

Duke
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