Re: XP Users
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:00:03 -0400
Anything you want to keep under your control you need to put in your
personal account.
There are multiple desktops. There is an "All Users" desktop and there are
desktops created for each account. Any desktop icon on the all Users desktop
can be deleted by anyone and everyone will be affected.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"mikelncsra" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6bc62$427a748c$455da0d2$14264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a Gateway 500 series computer that I've owned for several
> years. When first set up, there was only one user profile. It's an
> administrator login. About 6 months ago, I set up a second user
> profile, but have been noticing problems. Recently, I needed to set
> up a third profile, and the same issues are happening, no matter the
> level of privileges.
>
> Basically, no matter who logs in, settings such as desktop icons and
> app specific settings are all taken from either the Owner or the
> Administrator. I really can't tell, since it seems like those two
> are intermingled. I say this because My documents for the original
> user is housed in Administrator, but Desktop settins are housed in
> Owner. This seems to carry on further.
>
> Examples: New User 1 logs in. Immediately there's an alert from the
> system that the homepage for Firefox is trying to be changed. If
> changed, the resulting homepage is now changed in ALL users. If an
> icon is removed off the desktop because it isn't needed for that
> user, it is missing from ALL users. If AOL or AIM or Trillian is
> loaded, it is automatically logged in to my main account (as set up
> in the original user's settings). Any changes, change them
> EVERYWHERE.
>
> I've been trying to figure this out for a while. I can't seem to find
> any help pages that tell me how one user (especially not an
> administrator) can make global changes, or more importantly how to
> stop that from happening. Nor can I seem to find any instance of
> where personal settings are split between Administrator and Owner
> profiles. This *should* be the main Administrator profile that
> doesn't show up in the Control Panel screen (and it doesn't), but yet
> certain documents and settings for Owner seem to reside there.
>
> Thanks for any ideas out there. I'm new to this list.
>
> Mike
>
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