Two accounts on xp problem

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

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Hey. I usually just have one account on xp with all my stuff on but now i want two accounts: One for Photoshop and browsing the internet and the other for games. I've made the new account but when i log on it has all the same files as my other account. When i delete these files it deletes them off both accounts instead of the one i'm on.
How can this be sorted?
Thanks.
 
Why would you need a separate account for playing games?

That aside, the accounts in WinXP are shocking. I always avoid multiple accounts whenever possible. However, all I can think of to help you out is using programs access and defaults and maybe the policies [policies arent in WinXP Home afaik]

SiriusB
 
Seperate accounts don't seperate all of your files or anything like that, and having an account "just for games" doesn't make anything "cleaner", I don't think there's anything to gain from what you're trying. The "My Documents" folders will, by default, be seperate between accounts if you want somewhere to keep information that's specific to one account.
 
Which files are the same? Files on the desktop? My Documents? Also, how did you create the new user and is it using it's own profile?
 
Trigger said:
Which files are the same? Files on the desktop? My Documents? Also, how did you create the new user and is it using it's own profile?
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All the files on the start>all programs are the same and when i delete one of those files it deletes them on both user accounts instead of just the one.
I created the new user on the user accounts options on control panel. It's a limited account.

I want it so that on my main account i've got all my files and stuff and on the other account it doesn't have all these files.
 
It's because you're deleting stuff from All Users. You need to go into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs and copy and pase all the items you don't want in your games account into C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Start Menu\Programs with 'Username' being the account name you use for net access etc:)
 
trigger is right


as for the games account, i have a seperate account just for games, when i log in it disables services and kills processes that i don't need (like AV etc) so i only have minimal things runnning with a colour for a background (no bitmap loaded into explorer.exe then)

then when i log off it restarts the services and programs :)
 
Trigger said:
It's because you're deleting stuff from All Users. You need to go into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs and copy and pase all the items you don't want in your games account into C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Start Menu\Programs with 'Username' being the account name you use for net access etc:)
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Thanks ;) I'll try this in a min.



bledd. said:
trigger is right


as for the games account, i have a seperate account just for games, when i log in it disables services and kills processes that i don't need (like AV etc) so i only have minimal things runnning with a colour for a background (no bitmap loaded into explorer.exe then)

then when i log off it restarts the services and programs :)
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My point exactly. :)
 
Might sound extreme but, how about a second installation of XP (Multi-boot)? When I was trying out x64 quite liked the idea. Only problem is that you need to restart machine when you need say to play your games on one installation.
 
Just a question, is it actually any better?
Maybe a few FPS or what, I dont know, just curious.
Thanks

MC_Bob
 
mc_bob said:
Just a question, is it actually any better?
Maybe a few FPS or what, I dont know, just curious.
Thanks

MC_Bob
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I've heard it is but not sure. When i go on my main account i have got about 30 processes running but on the new account there is about 8 so must be a bit quicker?
 
hp7909 said:
Might sound extreme but, how about a second installation of XP (Multi-boot)? When I was trying out x64 quite liked the idea. Only problem is that you need to restart machine when you need say to play your games on one installation.
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Good point but i would rather just log off, log on than restart.
 
Trigger said:
It's because you're deleting stuff from All Users. You need to go into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs and copy and pase all the items you don't want in your games account into C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Start Menu\Programs with 'Username' being the account name you use for net access etc:)
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Thanks for all the help, works perfect ;) :cool:
 
Lol, one more problem. I've got the programs i don't want on my games account to go but now i got the same processes running on both accounts.

Before it said i had about 8 processes running on games account and about 30 on usual account but now there are the same for both :confused:
Thanks..again
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Lol, one more problem. I've got the programs i don't want on my games account to go but now i got the same processes running on both accounts.

Before it said i had about 8 processes running on games account and about 30 on usual account but now there are the same for both :confused:
Thanks..again
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You need to remember that processes will start every time you reboot, so if you have been killing processes through the task manager then they will need to be stopped by a start up/logon script every time the user logs on really :)

Just had a quick search on google and it came up with this suggestion for it which looks rather good. Have a read and give it a go :cool:
 
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