Creating new accounts

[Guest]

I want to create a new Windows XP User account. When I do, I don't want all
the stuff that I see on the "adminstrator" user account. So I had attempted
to remove some of the icons that this person was not going to use on this
user account, but then I returned back to the "administrator" account, what I
had done on the new user account had somehow had the same changes on the
"admin" account. How can I prevent this from happening. I want way different
settings from the administrator account to this new user account, but so far
it won't let me do that.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I want to create a new Windows XP User account. When I do, I don't want all
the stuff that I see on the "adminstrator" user account. So I had attempted
to remove some of the icons that this person was not going to use on this
user account, but then I returned back to the "administrator" account, what I
had done on the new user account had somehow had the same changes on the
"admin" account. How can I prevent this from happening. I want way different
settings from the administrator account to this new user account, but so far
it won't let me do that.

You need to develop an awareness of profile folders.
There are three such folders that matter:
a) Default User. This is the template that is used to build
a new user's profile. It will be used just once - when
the user first logs on.
b) All Users. Any shortcut in this folder will be visible to
all users.
c) JMontgomery. When JMontgomery first logs on, he
inherits everything from "Default User". He will also see
all shortcuts from "All Users", plus the ones he creates
for himself.

You probably deleted some shortcuts that were located
in the "All Users" folder, which is why you lost them for
your own account too. Instead of deleting them, you should
have moved them to your own desktop!

To see where a shortcut resides, right-click it, click Properties,
then General.