all users desktops look same

[Pat Glenn]

List of programs and desktop icons are the same for all
users. Only the wallpapers are kept separate/custom.
How can they be independant?

 

[Roger Abell]

List of programs and desktop icons are the same for all
users. Only the wallpapers are kept separate/custom.
How can they be independant?

Each of the three classes of items you have
mentioned are stored in separate places.

 

[pat glenn]

Thanks, Roger.
I should have asked- how can I make them independent
again?
Problem: All my users have the same desktop icons.
Thanks.

Pat

 

[Roger Abell]

The items that are the same for all accounts either
1. are found in the All Users profile in Documents and Settings
or
2. are in each account's profile, possibly by their having been
copied there at first login from the Default User profile
This is so for start menu items or desktop items (you will see
two folders with these named. If something is in All Users but
you only want it for two accounts, copy to corresponding location
in profiles of those two account (copy - do not move) and then
remove from the All Users profile.

Wallpaper is not handled in this way as it is stored in the
accounts registry area.