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Name: condarco
Date: July 14, 2008 at 09:52:36 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: celeron-500MB
Product: Pc-ibm
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Hi:
I have windows XP and try to create an account to my girlfriend. It was O.K. but the surprise came when she wont to open same .pps or use wordfor windows. Then the program takes to much time in loading or searching the application program and in many times dosen´t complay the task. I believe because I intaled she´s account in a wwrong way or am missing samething. Somebody know what can it be?
Thank in advance.
Daniel



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Name: Tubesandwires
Date: July 15, 2008 at 13:07:20 Pacific
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If her account has administrator priviledges, and yours does (it always does by default if you're the only user), there should be no difference regarding what files she can access and what files you can access, unless
- either or both of you are using passwords to log onto Windows - in that case some files in some folders cannot be accessed by one user or both users, but the user's own files can be accessed no problem. You would get the access denied message or similar for files you don't have the permission to use.
You cannot remove a password without losing all (or at least some) of the account user specific account info and files, the same as if you had deleted and made a new account, or had re-named an account.
- some programs can be specified while installing them as being for all users, or for only whoever installed them - if that was not set to all users, another user cannot access the program - however it that case I would think one would probably get an error message when one tried to access the program or a file associated only with the program.
I don't know if that can be re-set to all users once the program has been installed. You would probably have to un-install it then re-install it. In this case, if MS Office or Power Point by itself was installed, or if they weren't but the Power Point Viewer was installed, that is what the setting would be in, or what would have to be re-installed.

Outside of that, her account may have damaged registry info - you could try loading a previous restore point in System Restore


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