re: Home - authorisations/permissions etc.
Monday, April 24, 2006 at 4:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jb
(38 messages posted)
If you log on as the administrator, you should be able to look in documents and settings
and see directories for each user accounr, and a few others. In the subdirectories
for each user there is a Desktop and Start Menu directory. The shortcuts in these
locations are what the individual users will see. There is also an All Users directory
and what is in the relevant subdirectories is visable to all users. You just need
to put shortcuts where you need them.
On Monday, April 24, 2006 at 3:15 am, Michael Lazar wrote:
>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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