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Monday, April 24, 2006 at 3:15 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael Lazar
(8 messages posted)
Ive just rebuilt a friend’s computer. I have WinXP Pro and I’m a experienced single
home user who is retired and had no experience of administrators/networks etc. at
work. She has WinXP Home and there are three users – her and two daughters.
However, because on my own PC I’m both the administrator + user in the same breath,
this means that I don't have any real knowledge of setting up a standard administrator/user
system on a home PC. Unfortunately, this means that there’s some things about permissions
etc. that I just don’t understand.
1) I can’t seem to get an icon that’s already within Windows onto the users' individual
desktops, (Outlook Express + MS Paint to be specific), I’ve tried putting the icon
on the administrator’s desktop, (i.e. by creating a shortcut in Windows Explorer
and dragging it onto the desktop), but it doesn’t automatically appear on theirs.
I tried logging on to the users' accounts and then accessing the ‘Control Panel |Add/Remove
Progs |Install Windows Components etc.’, but that doesn’t seem to work either. I’ve
even tried a workaround of making them ‘administrators’ so Windows Explorer could
display the right-hand pane but with no joy.
I’m sure this is a really easy thing to do normally so I must obviously be doing
something wrong – what?
I suppose that I’m having these difficulties because I’m just not used to setting
a system up in this way. Does anyone know of a Web article somewhere that might help
me?
Thanks
Mike
Mike
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