Re: Personal Directories

From: rossm (rossm_at_disc.ms.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:33:01 -0800

Thanks Alex and Wesley.

I think my questions should be:

1. When you grant administrator privileges to several users and then install
new programs as one of those, the programs go into c:/Program Files. What
goes into the Administrator user folder? Apart from security issues, what is
wrong with giving several users adminisitrator privileges?

2. If I create a Ross-Admin user and give ONLY that user administrator
privileges, should I always install programs when signed on as Ross-admin?
What happens if one of the other users forgets and installs a new program?

3. I guess each user who uses, for example, Microsoft Word and personalizes
menus etc gets to keep those personalities when sighing on as that user. It
looks like Windows remembers these settings, as well as individual user's
desktops, so that every time they sign on as the correct user, the individual
settings are used. Will this work for Word Perfect, Adobe Illustrator, Sigma
Plot, and other applications?

4. Does it take much longer to boot up if the desktop is filled with
shortcuts? If so, I guess I could create two users, one with lots of
shortcuts on the desktop and one with few. But then I'd have to personalize
all my applications the same and keep track of this as both users every time
I make a change. And files and folders I put in My Documents for one user
would not be available from another user's My Documents. Does User1 have
access to User2's My Documents?

5. In my Documents and Settings I have folders called:

Administrator
              with folders called Administrator's Documents, Desktop, and
Start Menu

RossAdmin
             with folders called RossAdmin's Documents, Desktop, and Start
Menu

RossM
             with folders called My Documents, Desktop, and Start Menu

But when I boot up the only ones of these users which shows up is RossM

The others were created when I created users with those names, but later I
deleted those users. I was able to delete RossAdmin and all its subfolders
but when I tried this with Administrator I received a warning that this could
make some programs unusable. So I went into Control Panel and opened User
Accounts and tried to create a new user named Administrator but it said there
was already one there and to choose another name. What should I do about
this?

Thanks,

Ross

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