Re: Personal Directories
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/12/05
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:55:32 +0000
rossm wrote:
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>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?
The important thing is that related info, eg the desktop shortcuts and
Start menu go into
C:\Documents and Settings\AllUsers folders
Some older programs do not recognise the structure, and it ends up in
the one under your name rather than AllUsers - provided you used an
account with Admin status, you should be able to move them across
>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?
Yes - see above, older ones may not work out, any modern one should ask
if you are installing for just yourself or for everyone
>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?
Office keeps its own folder of personal items under the
C:\Doc &settings\user\
for each user; and programs in general have settings held in registry in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ - so that each person retains his own
>4. Does it take much longer to boot up if the desktop is filled with
>shortcuts?
Not appreciably, except the time that might be taken to extract the
icons from program files. Other things will be taking much more of the
time
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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