Multiple Users: Changing Startup Items in XP

[UNLTuba]

I have iolo's System Mechanic installed on my comptuer and usually that is how I adjust start-up items and such. However, I have always been the only user on my computer - until now. I created another user account and tried to disable certain programs from starting up using System Mechanic while logged onto the unprivilaged account. However, when I switched back to my administrative account I found that the same programs I disabled in the unprivilaged account also became disabled in my administrative account. Is there a way to seperate the way programs start up when logging in as different users? Thanks for your help in advance...

 

[SnapIT]

restricted accounts work only on limited users, go to start, control panel, user accounts, configure... how to do the rest i will not explain as so many have done so before me...

 

[mikecel79]

System Mechanic doesn't understand the concept of different user profiles (many programs out there don't yet). It's editing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive of the registry instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive. You can probably use MSCONFIG for what you want to accomplish. It's pretty self explanatory. Let us know if you need help with it though.

 

[UNLTuba]

So do I go into msconfig while logged in as the unprivilaged user then and change settings there or can I do it from my admin account for the unprivilaged one?

 

[mikecel79]

You have to run msconfig for each account that you want to change startup items for.

 

[eklass]

and don't forget that items in the all users>startup group should be moved over to someuser>startup group if you don't want it starting for everybody



did i just call it a group? wow, that's so windows 3.1 :sigh: