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techknight11

techknight11

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I am the main user on my Dell Inspiron N5040 running Windows 7. Occasionally my mom gets on her account to do stuff. She doesn't log off so I check her account for anything unwanted. and I find that some of my application icon shortcuts are on her desktop. Since she won't use them I delete them. But when I go back to my account, the icons that I deleted from her account have been deleted from mine.

I thought user accounts were like having different PCs inside one PC. this is very aggravating, how do I fix this?
 
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jnkweaver
When you install the program it usually asks. You can go to Users/All users and move the shortcuts from the desktop (Users/All Users/Desktop) to your profile Users/your name/Desktop
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jnkweaver

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You can set up Icons to be all users or user specific. Because they were showing in your mom's account they were most likely for All users so when you delete it you deleted it for everyone. the good thing is they are just shortcuts that you can make again.
 
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techknight11

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How do I change this setting
 
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