I recently tried to set up a limited account after a fresh format, and I don't see how it could have been any more complicated. I consider myself pretty computer savvy, and when I couldn't get things how I wanted with two accounts, I felt pretty stupid heh. After all most advice with setting up additional accounts simply entails "Go to control panel, user accounts, add new account."
I guess it depends on the level of "OCDness" a person has, to determine how much of a walkthrough they need with setting up new accounts. The advice I mentioned above certainly didn't cut it for me. I had my Administrator account (Matt), and made the limited account (Losers). I ran into many "problems", to name a few:
Anyway, that's not to mention how tedious it is to duplicate settings across the accounts. Backgrounds, folder views, etc etc. People just say to edit the group policies, and I know where that is but it's not exactly intuitive.
People say to do daily use on a limited account and use the administrator account when you need to, but I can't figure out how to effect the limited account FROM the administrator account. SO, is it feasible to instead just raise the limited account to administrative level when needed? For example create the second account, but make it an administrator as well and then you can set everything up how you like it, and then lower it to a limited account?
I guess it depends on the level of "OCDness" a person has, to determine how much of a walkthrough they need with setting up new accounts. The advice I mentioned above certainly didn't cut it for me. I had my Administrator account (Matt), and made the limited account (Losers). I ran into many "problems", to name a few:
I had My Documents/Pictures/Music/Videos in Matt's folder, but in Losers's folder it had Losers's Documents/Pictures/Music/Videos. I tried renaming them to "My" instead of "Losers" and realized that Windows was simply displaying it that way since I was on the Matt account, and not that the folder was actually named that. Well, except for the Videos folder. "My Videos" was literally named My Videos in the Losers's folder, regardless of which account I was on. Why the heck would it be like that in the Losers's folder, but not in the Matt's folder? If that made no sense, good, because it didn't make sense to me either and doesn't really matter, but little stupid things like that bug me.
Couldn't change the power schemes in the limited account, and I never want my computer to go in standby. Couldn't figure out how to change that from the administrative account.
University requires Cisco Clean Access Agent, and when I tried to log in at startup on my limited account, I clicked the "Remember me" checkbox in Clean Access Agent and it popped up with an error saying "Can't write to file." What a stupid little annoyance.
Anyway, that's not to mention how tedious it is to duplicate settings across the accounts. Backgrounds, folder views, etc etc. People just say to edit the group policies, and I know where that is but it's not exactly intuitive.
People say to do daily use on a limited account and use the administrator account when you need to, but I can't figure out how to effect the limited account FROM the administrator account. SO, is it feasible to instead just raise the limited account to administrative level when needed? For example create the second account, but make it an administrator as well and then you can set everything up how you like it, and then lower it to a limited account?
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