- Deleting user-profiles!
- Posted by itemyar on January 8th, 2006
For the kazillionth time, I'm trying to clean up my daughter's computer from
months of teenager-abuse (my grandaughter is the guilty one mostly) and I'm
at the point where I know what I should do: I will be the system
administrator, so I can protect my daughter's family from themselves,
they're so reckless and computer-challenged, it's a horrible unorganized
mess!
My question is: If I delete a user, do all of their pictures, documents,
etc. get deleted too? If so, I will burn all of these things to a CD first.
My goal is to set myself up as the system administrator (since their
computer always comes back to me when there's a problem) and create
individual profiles (with certain controls :-) for each of them.
Help, suggestions?
Thanks all!
Ray
- Posted by Lighty on January 8th, 2006
Hello itemyar !
I think so !
But you can shift the personal Files to an other partition !
own files - right klick - prefernces - shift
( sorry, for my bad english ) 
"itemyar" wrote:
> For the kazillionth time, I'm trying to clean up my daughter's computer from
> months of teenager-abuse (my grandaughter is the guilty one mostly) and I'm
> at the point where I know what I should do: I will be the system
> administrator, so I can protect my daughter's family from themselves,
> they're so reckless and computer-challenged, it's a horrible unorganized
> mess!
>
> My question is: If I delete a user, do all of their pictures, documents,
> etc. get deleted too? If so, I will burn all of these things to a CD first.
> My goal is to set myself up as the system administrator (since their
> computer always comes back to me when there's a problem) and create
> individual profiles (with certain controls :-) for each of them.
>
> Help, suggestions?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Ray
>
>
>
- Posted by Steve N. on January 8th, 2006
itemyar wrote:
> For the kazillionth time, I'm trying to clean up my daughter's computer from
> months of teenager-abuse (my grandaughter is the guilty one mostly) and I'm
> at the point where I know what I should do: I will be the system
> administrator, so I can protect my daughter's family from themselves,
> they're so reckless and computer-challenged, it's a horrible unorganized
> mess!
>
> My question is: If I delete a user, do all of their pictures, documents,
> etc. get deleted too? If so, I will burn all of these things to a CD first.
> My goal is to set myself up as the system administrator (since their
> computer always comes back to me when there's a problem) and create
> individual profiles (with certain controls :-) for each of them.
>
> Help, suggestions?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Ray
>
>
When you delete a user in the Control Panel applet it will ask you if
you want to delete their files. I would backup the files they want to
keep first and then delete the user and files.
Steve N.
