Annoying problem with Win2k

[Mark]

I have 2 types of accounts on this comp, an Administrator account and a Guest account. When I log in and log out of the adminitrator account, it saves all my settings fine. But when I log into a Guest account and log off of it, it forgets all of the settings. It's like as if the computer is booting for the very first time when I go into Guest mode. Is there anyway to save the settings in Guest mode? Also, is there a configuartion utility that will let me control what the Guest account can do and what it cannot?

 

[gilberd]

the guest account doesn't really have much flexibility in any of your system's configuration. it's only there for a guest to use the computer without destroying your configuration.
as for the setting resetting, i've never had that since i don't use the guest account.
try creating another use and set it as guest as well, the one you create yourself might be able to save the settings...

 

[pudcox]

for info on how to edit account permissions do a search in the windows help for snap ins....you should be able to figure it out from there

 

[MulLa]

The reason why it's doing this is because each account have their own profiles under W2k. As it's ment to be for a distributed environment where user A might not have the same software / settings as user B. One solution you can use is to setup a "default" account the way that you like. Then have that profile copied to the other accounts that you like to have that setting. I think it's done through controle pannel -> Users. Can't remember clearly since I've only ever done that once.

 

[Legacy6]

The part were you copy 1 profile to others is done through the 'Properties' for 'My Computer' under 'User Profiles' tab. Here you can choose to copy 1 profile to another or copy 1 profile to a 'default profile' which will allow users to have the same profile. The 'default profile' is normally hidden and its path is 'C:\Documents and Settings\default user'. Also, if you decide to copy to the 'default user', make sure you set the permissions on that profile to 'Everyone'.