Setting up other user accounts...

[George]

I'd like to set up three user accounts on one PC...let's say they would be
George, Billy, and Alice. Each needs access MS Word, among other things.

Is it possible to set it up so that Billy's documents get saved *by default*
to his C:\Documents and Settings\Billy\MyDocuments folder and Alice's *by
default* go to her folder, and so forth. That is, when a person signs on,
either Word and/or WinXP knows his/her specific "save to" folder.

As a single-PC-user, I've set the default folder in Word to things like "My
Documents" for many years, but I can't find a way in either WinXP-pro or
Word to accomodate *multiple users* (or multiple login accounts) so they
don't have to manually specify their "save" folder each time. It doesn't
make much sense to have one default, since everyone (unless they changed the
save to place each time) would end up dumping/accessing their documents in
one big mixed up pot.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hi George,

Follow these steps to get new user accounts:

1. Start > Settings > Control Panel double click User Accounts.

2. To add an account select Create a new account from Pick a task...

3. Enter the username and click next. The new window has options for the
account type. There are two choices:

Computer administrator - administrators group
Limited - Users group

Click Create to create the account. The account is not Password protected
yet.

4. To change the password of user account, click on the username and it
will ask what changes should be made to the account. You will need to enter
the password twice to confirm the creation of the account


Once the users login, every user will have his/ her own My Documents folder.
The default store folder for each new user will be C:\Documents and
Settings\<User Name>\My Documents.

Hope this answers your question.

Regards,
KP

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Windows NT, 2000and XP will automatically do this. The desktop icom "My
Documents" would be going to their own directory.

 

[George]

Outstanding, thanks.

So this means that for ALL applications...Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., I
set up each of these to have a default of "My Documents"... then .... when
Billy signs onto his account in WinXP, his save's are going to HIS
MyDocuments folder, not others'.

However, suppose I create for Billy:
C:\Documents and Settings\Billy\MyDocuments\2004\

and I create for Alice:
C\Documents and Settings\Alice\MyDocuments\School\

....would I be able to tell Word (or other apps) to *default* to these
subfolders in their respective login accounts, i.e....

.....\2004 (for Billy)
.....\School (for Alice)?

Or can I not go below "My Documents" for each of them?

Thanks