Desktop Shortcuts

[Mark Storey]

Hi

When I install a game for my daughter the shortcut for it also appears on
all user's desktops. My wife hates having shortcuts on her desktop other
than those she specifies and so deletes them; they then vanish from all the
desktops.

Surely the point of individual desktops is that each person can have what
they want.

Is there any way of overcoming this problem? To add or delete shortcuts on a
per-user basis? There seems to be no options or controls for this under
'personalise'.

XP had the 'unused shortcut wizard' that you could invoke to do it; but I
can't find mention of this task/problem anywhere in the help files.

New machine with Home Premium factory installed.


Thanks
MarkS

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Mark,

Move the shortcuts from the shared default to the user's own desktop. From
here:

C:\Users\Public\Desktop

To here:

C:\Users\<daughter>\Desktop

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Mark Storey]

Hi Mark,

Move the shortcuts from the shared default to the user's own desktop. From
here:

C:\Users\Public\Desktop

To here:

C:\Users\<daughter>\Desktop

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Thanks for the response Rick I shall try that at once.

(But why can't an OS this big do something so simple?)

 

[Pete Russell]

It is up to the developer to write the program properly, The OS has nothing
to do with it.