Obstacles to setting up new Vista

  • Thread starter Thread starter Adam Skeaping
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Adam Skeaping

I'm having a Bad Time with my first attempt to set up Vista on my new Dell
laptop. I have the privilages that go with selecting Admin account when I
first went through the initial Vista user setup.

* loads of Right-Click context menus don't include Properties. For
instance, I want to put all user documents on a separate partition, but can't
change where Documents point, because context menu only gives me Open,
Explore, Copy, Create Shortcut & Delete.

* and has the the Alt-Return key combination stopped selecting Properties
for any selected object -- even those for which I can find Properties in the
context menu?

* I can't copy any user profile to any other user. From the System &
Maintenance C/panel, I select Advanced System Settings, then from User
Profiles I select a non-logged-on user and hit Copy To... , I browse to
C:\Users\[non-logged-in-username] and click OK, and dismiss the warning; but
the settings are not copied.

* Why are

C:\Documents and Settings
C:\Users\All Users
C:\Users\Default User

all shortcuts to which access is denied?

I Googled all sorts of stuff and searched the Windows Vista forums but
nobody else seems to be having the problems I'm finding...

Are there any Super Administrator privileges I can take on temporarily to
enable me to get this OS set up the way I want without being chased out of
the nursery by the nanny?
 
Sorry to have wasted the time of anyone who read my post above -- I was so
fixated by the idea that the [username] folder on the desktop was equivalent
to XP's 'My Documents' that I never bothered to open it -- only ever tried to
right-click. After posting, I accidentally opened it and found of course
that I can mess with all the properties I need...

I also discovered about enabling Administrator Login.

However, I still don't know how to duplicate all the settings, appearances,
desktop, QuickLaunch, and other user preferences from one user to another, so
anyone out there with info about that (and the time to reply) would be very
welcome.
 
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