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I have two users for the computer. How do I know when I change things what will be changed on the other user. When I download things they show up for them. But then some things I change don't change on the other users. Basically what I wanted was to be able to set our own favorites on the internet, but it looks like we share those also. Do I not have something checked right? When I remove an icon from my desktop it removes it from the other persons also. I put icq on here and I have sound, but the other user has no sound. Any ideas? Whoever replies please do so in detail. I know where you change these settings I think, but it's not clear to me what the changes will do.
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Thanks Dennis! When I set this up it asks to create separate folders and I didn't do that maybe that's what I need to do.
Are you referring to windows itself or another program?
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Dennis,
I found what is confusing me so. Under control panel and then users I have two users. When you select a user and click change settings this menu confuses me on what I should choose. It lists items to customize desktop, start menu, favorites folder, downloaded web pages, and my documents. Underneath that is create copies of current items and their contents(this is the only box that is marked for both users by the way) and create new items to save disk space. Already as it is we both have our own desktops (meaning different schemes if you will) and I notice that the other users documents are not available to me on my desktop. How can that be when we haven't checked any of these boxes? The only one filled in is create copies of current items and their contents. All I'm really wanting is their internet favorites to be on theirs and mine to be on mine. However I do all of the downloading/updating and do not want to change something so when I get some software or update something that it won't apply to them. Or does that even happen? I'm curious why some options I change change for them and others do not. For example on accounting software we share a package. I changed some options on mine and when logged in as other user and it did not change however any transactions do change to them. Which that is the way I want. Do I make any sense? lol I think I asked you about icq. I downloaded icq right. Well under my user it loads automatically and I have sound. Under theirs no sound and they have to manually load it. So I checked out their sound and none of the sound files were set at all. Does each user have a separate MSCONFIG also? Well thanks for all your help Dennis! I'm greatful!!
I found what is confusing me so. Under control panel and then users I have two users. When you select a user and click change settings this menu confuses me on what I should choose. It lists items to customize desktop, start menu, favorites folder, downloaded web pages, and my documents. Underneath that is create copies of current items and their contents(this is the only box that is marked for both users by the way) and create new items to save disk space. Already as it is we both have our own desktops (meaning different schemes if you will) and I notice that the other users documents are not available to me on my desktop. How can that be when we haven't checked any of these boxes? The only one filled in is create copies of current items and their contents. All I'm really wanting is their internet favorites to be on theirs and mine to be on mine. However I do all of the downloading/updating and do not want to change something so when I get some software or update something that it won't apply to them. Or does that even happen? I'm curious why some options I change change for them and others do not. For example on accounting software we share a package. I changed some options on mine and when logged in as other user and it did not change however any transactions do change to them. Which that is the way I want. Do I make any sense? lol I think I asked you about icq. I downloaded icq right. Well under my user it loads automatically and I have sound. Under theirs no sound and they have to manually load it. So I checked out their sound and none of the sound files were set at all. Does each user have a separate MSCONFIG also? Well thanks for all your help Dennis! I'm greatful!!
<<Already as it is we both have our own desktops (meaning different schemes if you will) and I notice that the other users documents are not available to me on my desktop. How can that be when we haven't checked any of these boxes?>>
If you began using the PC with one profile for all users, and then went to a multi-user profile, only some settings will migrate. Settings that were present when you changed to multi will apply to both, but changes afterwards "should" apply to only that user. Understand though that this has its quirks, in that if you have the original profile, you effect two parts of the registry, that apply to all users as well as that applying to your profile.
It's difficult at the moment to sort these out as some are global machine changes, while some only apply to the specific user. Had you set this machine up originally as multi-user, you would have had a default user for global changes, as well as two individual users for changes specific to each.
If you began using the PC with one profile for all users, and then went to a multi-user profile, only some settings will migrate. Settings that were present when you changed to multi will apply to both, but changes afterwards "should" apply to only that user. Understand though that this has its quirks, in that if you have the original profile, you effect two parts of the registry, that apply to all users as well as that applying to your profile.
It's difficult at the moment to sort these out as some are global machine changes, while some only apply to the specific user. Had you set this machine up originally as multi-user, you would have had a default user for global changes, as well as two individual users for changes specific to each.
Here you will be able to customize different options, such as Desktop, Start Menu, Favorites Folder, Download Web Pages and My Documents Folder between the users that where created.
Hope this helps you with your problem.