USers don't have own desktop?

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Hi, I'm wondering something. I have to admin accounts on my machine. One for
me and one for my girlfriend. It seems that anything that I install on my
login, copies over to her desktop. I'm not worried about her being able to
access the programs, but they fill up her desktop with shortcuts.

Is there a way to allow each user to have thier own desktop settings?
 
Hi,

The desktop shortcuts unique to a user are stored at:
C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Desktop

The desktop shortcuts that are available to all users are stored at:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

So if you dont want a particular shortcut to show up on your girlfriend's desktop, remove the
shortcut from
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop and put under your desktop.

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Thanks for that info. So when installing programs, is there a way to set the
install or something so that the shortcuts only go to my desktop?
 
Hi, I'm wondering something. I have to admin accounts on my machine. One for
me and one for my girlfriend. It seems that anything that I install on my
login, copies over to her desktop. I'm not worried about her being able to
access the programs, but they fill up her desktop with shortcuts.

Is there a way to allow each user to have thier own desktop settings?
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The programs that are showing up on her desktop as well are adding their
shortcuts to the All Users folders. If you want them on your desktop only,
copy the shortcuts to your folder (..\Documents and Settings\<your
account>\Desktop and then delete them from All Users\Desktop.
 
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