Poweruser Acct. (W2K)

[tommytomtom]

For security purposes, I renamed my administrator account and made up a new bogus administrator account named administrator. I also set up a Poweruser account that I would normally like to use since it is safer to surf without using an account with administrative privileges.

My problem is that when I logon as administrator I go to my normal desktop but, when I logoff the admin. acct. and onto the poweruser acct., I go to a desktop that is lacking many of the programs I use, as well as not having over 2000 jpg's I've saved, and I also need to resetup firefox, thunderbird etc.

Why in the world don't I log back into the same desktop? I have tried to correct this by copying the admin. profile to the poweruser profile but this didn't work.

Thanks for any help. Tom

[PastaBoy4]

if you log in under the admin account you should be able to access everybody's document and settings you can copy over desktop to your power users desktop folder and alsow any pics you have in my documents/my pictures or where ever you may have stored them you could copy them over to the power users account alsow any icons you whant everybody to have on their desktop you can copy over to all users and anybody can access them

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[motoflop]

When you renamed original administrator, windows kept all settings, including desktop and attached them to that renamed account. Your new administrator account got new desktop and other settings from defalt user's profile. So you have to make all desired customizations againg. You have also to install all per user applications for that new account. Old account might have many icons on private desktop, which can be copied to new administrators desktop. Explore folders under "c:\Documents and Settings\*\Desktop" and "c:\Documents and Settings\*\Start Menu". Be sure that explorer is showing system and hidden files while doing that.