Re: Won't save user preferences

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:31:37 GMT

While logged on as an administrator check the all users profile under documents and
settings. Look in the desktop and start menu folders for that profile and see if what
you have deleted exists there and if it does delete it and try again. --- Steve

"John" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1210801c3f59f$5c0b5e80$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Win 2000, I have created another user on my standalone
> computer (albeit in a peer-2-peer network), but any
> desktop settings I change are not saved. for example, I
> have removed a couple of icons from the desktop, turned
> off the auto WinHelp startup tutorial, etc., but next time
> I log on as this user, everything has been reset to
> default. How do I get the system to retain such changes?
> Do all partitioned drives have to be configures with NTFS
> structure? My C:\ is still FAT32. Can this be the problem?

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