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I have a weird problem that has been occuring since I did a full recovery of
my computer a little over a month ago. I have two seperate user identities
on windows xp. One profile for my wife and one for myself, we are both set
up as administrators on the operating system but for some reason whenever I
change my desktop theme hers is also changed to whatever mine is. This never
happened before and I have worked with a technician online who sent me a link
that adds something to my registry. This did not fix the problem does anyone
have anyother ideas? Thank you
 
sammytheblade said:
I have a weird problem that has been occuring since I did a full recovery of
my computer a little over a month ago. I have two seperate user identities
on windows xp. One profile for my wife and one for myself, we are both set
up as administrators on the operating system but for some reason whenever I
change my desktop theme hers is also changed to whatever mine is. This never
happened before and I have worked with a technician online who sent me a link
that adds something to my registry. This did not fix the problem does anyone
have anyother ideas? Thank you
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A good starting point would be to find out the names of your
two profiles. Here is how to do it:
- Click Start / Run
- Type cmd {ok}
- Type set userprofile {Enter}

What do you get?
 
A good starting point would be to find out the names of your
two profiles. Here is how to do it:
- Click Start / Run
- Type cmd {ok}
- Type set userprofile {Enter}

What do you get?
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It seems your two accounts point to the same profile
folder called "owner", although (according to your
initial post) you use different names when logging
on. You are like Siamese twins! Here is how you
can resume your individual identities:

1. Create two new accounts, e.g. Husband, Wife.
2. Log on once under each of these accounts.
3. Reboot the machine.
4. Log on under "Administrator".
5. Control Panel / System / User Profiles
6. Select "Owner", then click "Copy".
7. When prompted for a destination, select
c:\documents and settings\husband.
8. Repeat Step7 for c:\documents and settings\wife.

You will now have individual profiles based on your
previously shared profile.
 
it seems that there ism ore to this than I realized. I did what you had
suggested and found that the problem starts when I use a program called
picassa to set my background from my pictures. When I do this on any account
it changes the picture for all accounts that have the program installed. I
can have different desktop settings if I go to properites on the desktop and
pick from the list of desktop themes one one idnentity but if I am using a
picture from picasa on both accounts it appears that the desktop theme has to
be the same. I am still unsure as to whether setting up our accounts as you
said had anything to do with the issue. In other owrds I am a bit confused.
 
What's essential here is if you have individual profile folders.
Previously you said that both of you had the same profile
folder, even when logged on under different accounts. The
command

echo %UserProfile%

when executed from a Command Prompt, confirmed this.

When you created the husband/wife accounts, you received
separate profile folders. Did you confirm this with the
above command? Are they still separate?
 
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