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Changes to Desktop Shortcuts Affects All Other Users

Anonymous
2012-06-24T22:02:11+00:00

I've created another administrator account on my personal computer. Obviously, since different users have different needs, I wanted to change the desktop shortcuts. However, when I change the desktop shortcuts on the new administrator account, they are subsequently changed on the original user account. How do I stop this from happening? Is this even supposed to happen? Thank you in advance!

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-25T13:51:02+00:00

    Hi,

    The items that appear on the Desktop can be stored in two separate locations.

    a. The items in the  C:\Users\your name\Desktop  folder only appear on that users Desktop.

    b. The items in the  C:\Users\Public\Desktop  folder will appear on all users Desktop.

    If you create or change the desktop shortcut C:\Users\your name\Desktop, it will not affect other users on the computer. On the other hand if you’re trying to create or change the desktop shortcut from C:\Users\Public\Desktop it will affect all the users on the computer.

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