I have a problem with win2K settings on a Thinkpad that I can't figure
out. Returned from vacation, turned on laptop that kids had been
using and opened My Documents. Contents were gone. I checked
location and discovered that the properties were no longer pointing to
Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents, but rather to
folder for user name that I login as (Documents and
Settings/Joedoakes/My Documents). I changed the properties back to
Adminstrator location to fix this problem. Then noticed that my
desktop, start menu, task bar were all pointing to Joedoakes instead
of administrator. I can't figure out how to change this back or why
it happened. I went to My Computer-->Manage-->Local Users and
Groups-->Users-->Joedoakes-->properties, and the user name is member
of group Administrators. Any help in how to map settings back to
Administrator would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

"Joe Doakes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a problem with win2K settings on a Thinkpad that I can't figure
> out. Returned from vacation, turned on laptop that kids had been
> using and opened My Documents. Contents were gone. I checked
> location and discovered that the properties were no longer pointing to
> Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents, but rather to
> folder for user name that I login as (Documents and
> Settings/Joedoakes/My Documents). I changed the properties back to
> Adminstrator location to fix this problem. Then noticed that my
> desktop, start menu, task bar were all pointing to Joedoakes instead
> of administrator. I can't figure out how to change this back or why
> it happened. I went to My Computer-->Manage-->Local Users and
> Groups-->Users-->Joedoakes-->properties, and the user name is member
> of group Administrators. Any help in how to map settings back to
> Administrator would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Log on under your secondary admin account, then rename the
"Administrator" profile folder to a different name, to force a
new profile to be created.

You might also want to review your password policy. Having
an administrator account that is readily accessible by children
can have some obvious repercussions.