Keeping users installed files on there account?

> Some programs will install for All Users, without asking if this is what you
> want to do. When they do this, they place the shortcuts in the All Users
> Start Menu which is located at:
>
> C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
>
> They also place the shortcuts on all users desktops. This is why when you
> delete the shortcut for that program, the program is assuming you want it
> removed from all accounts desktops, so it will disappear from all of the
> accounts.
>
> The location for each individual user to store their Start Menu shortcuts
> is:
>
> C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
>
> The location for each users desktop is:
>
> C:\Users\user name\Desktop
>
> The only thing you can do to resolve this is to open Windows Explorer and
> manually delete the shortcut from each individual accounts desktop, where
> you do not want the shortcut. You will need to do the same for each users
> Start Menu/All Programs.
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "duff" <duff @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news0135D0A-44CE-48A7-85C1-4E9B950C8D07@microsoft.com...

> > Okay, my mother, father, and i all have our own admin accounts on vista.
> > Is
> > there a way to make so that when they install a program, it will stay on
> > there account and there account only? Like my father installed divx which
> > i
> > dont mind cause i would use it too, however it put shortcuts on all of our
> > account desktops. When i went and deleted them on my desktop it deleted
> > them
> > off all of our desktops. Is there a way to keep what i do on my account,
> > stay
> > only on my account?
> >
> > Thanks

>

>I was able to find the folder for the desktop and get the ones i didnt want
> deleted, but for the life of my cant find the one for the start menu. I
> dont
> even have an appdata folder under my user name folder.
>
> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
>

>> Some programs will install for All Users, without asking if this is what
>> you
>> want to do. When they do this, they place the shortcuts in the All Users
>> Start Menu which is located at:
>>
>> C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
>>
>> They also place the shortcuts on all users desktops. This is why when you
>> delete the shortcut for that program, the program is assuming you want it
>> removed from all accounts desktops, so it will disappear from all of the
>> accounts.
>>
>> The location for each individual user to store their Start Menu shortcuts
>> is:
>>
>> C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
>>
>> The location for each users desktop is:
>>
>> C:\Users\user name\Desktop
>>
>> The only thing you can do to resolve this is to open Windows Explorer and
>> manually delete the shortcut from each individual accounts desktop, where
>> you do not want the shortcut. You will need to do the same for each users
>> Start Menu/All Programs.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ronnie Vernon
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>> "duff" <duff @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news0135D0A-44CE-48A7-85C1-4E9B950C8D07@microsoft.com...

>> > Okay, my mother, father, and i all have our own admin accounts on
>> > vista.
>> > Is
>> > there a way to make so that when they install a program, it will stay
>> > on
>> > there account and there account only? Like my father installed divx
>> > which
>> > i
>> > dont mind cause i would use it too, however it put shortcuts on all of
>> > our
>> > account desktops. When i went and deleted them on my desktop it deleted
>> > them
>> > off all of our desktops. Is there a way to keep what i do on my
>> > account,
>> > stay
>> > only on my account?
>> >
>> > Thanks

>>