Created User, now need help

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Piedmont

Windows Vista, I have never set a 'new user' before. It is my girl friends
laptop and I made me a 'user' for myself but when I go to my (not sure what
to call it) desk top? I cannot get programs that are on her desk top. How do
I make specific programs accessible on my desk top, non-ms programs. I
also have documents that are now in her documents which i want to move to my
user document folder.
Piedmont
 
In explorer, go to C:\users\Your Girl Friend\Desktop and copy the shortcuts
there to C:\users\Your Name\Desktop. Repeat the process for documents except
instead of copy use move.

Tyro
 
You have to be an administrator to get to other peoples profiles.

hth
DDS
 
I'm running as a standard user and can move/copy my administrative user's
things fine.

Tyro
 
There is no 'DeskTop' in my user folder. There is in my girl friends, I
found that right away.
 
Look under c:\users\ for a user named Default. This profile is used to
create the profile for a new user. It should have a desktop folder in it.
When the new user logs on for the first time, the default profile is copied
to a new folder and the folder is given the new user's name. You can play
with the default as you wish. If Default has a desktop, every new user will
have one too.

Tyro
 

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