Re: User Accounts...HELP!

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From: Peter Hutchison (pjhutch_at_pcguru.plus.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:54:31 +0000

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:34:32 -0500, "Colin Nash [MVP]"
<cnash-REMOVETHIS-@mvps.org> wrote:

>The programs you see under the Start menu have nothing to do with whether or
>not you are an administrator.
>
>A user will see the icons that are in his own profile under \DOCUMENTS AND
>SETTINGS\username\START MENU\ as well as anything under \DOCUMENTS AND
>SETTINGS\ALL USERS\START MENU. Same idea with Desktop icons (there's a
>desktop folder in those locations.)
>
>
>It's is a matter of how the application's setup program works.
>
>Sometimes you need to move the icons from the individual user's Start
>Menu/Desktop into the All Users one. Other (poorly written) applications
>may actually insist that you run the installation under each specific user's
>profile-- which may require you to temporarily elevate that account to an
>administrator level.

Try this little batch program to copy icons from current user's menu
to All Users menu:

@echo off
echo Copying Program short cuts from current user to All Users
xcopy c:\documents and settings\%username%\start menu\programs\*.*"
"c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs"
pause

Peter Hutchison
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