Adding program shortcuts to other users

[Jonathan White]

I am a novice XP user. It seemed like a good idea (now I'm wondering) to
set up separate user accounts for each of my kids. Now when I install a
pre-XP program it only shows up on the administrator start menu and the
administrator desktop with a shortcut to that program. How do I install a
program and then have each of the kids desktops have access to that same
program?

Or, should I scrap that whole idea, and go back to one user on the system
and everyone uses the one user?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Please see this page I wrote:
http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/xpsware.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Rajmohan Sathyanarayana [MSFT]]

Hi Jonathan,
This problem might happen with Pre-XP programs. there is no need for
scraping the idea of single user.
Copy the progarm Shotcuts from the Administrator's profile desktop
(c:\documents and settings\administratot\desktop) to
the other profiles desktop (c:\documents and settings\ <profile
name>\desktop).
this should work.
Raj
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

As explained here: http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/xpsware.htm

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Windows XP Shell
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Hi Jonathan,
This problem might happen with Pre-XP programs. there is no need for
scraping the idea of single user.
Copy the progarm Shotcuts from the Administrator's profile desktop
(c:\documents and settings\administratot\desktop) to
the other profiles desktop (c:\documents and settings\ <profile
name>\desktop).
this should work.
Raj
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.