18th June 2002
Lockergnomie Terry Bruce has a suggestion for those of us who deal with several users on Windows 2000 or XP: "I recently set up a friend's computer for later connection to his work domain. Windows 2000, Office 2000, and various tools were configured with me logged on as Administrator. Everything ran fine. As soon as I logged on under his existing domain name, Office 2000 insisted on completing the new installation - but refused to allow changes (as the user wasn't an administrator)! I tried adding this existing user to the administrator class, but with no success. The final 'down and dirty' solution? I deleted the user's profile, then I unhid the 'Default User' folder (under C:\ Documents and Settings). I copied the 'Administrator' profile into the 'Default User' directory (by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties | User Profiles). The final step was to log back on as the existing domain user. All the software worked great. I hope people can make use of this (if they're not doing it already)." You might have also noticed that you're accessing the contents of two Start menus (which appear as one). Try right-clicking on one of your groups to see what I mean - there's an "All Users" in there, too. Keep this in mind when you go to copy / move menu contents.