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Article #170Re: HELP !!! I need to stop my Wife moving the shortcuts on my desktop WIN95
From: Stalin
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00
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On 18 Dec 1996 00:31:55 GMT, braggerw@istar.ca (Bill Bragger) wrote: >In article <01bbe1e9$6ffb7280$75ae20cc@shaun>, spk@ix.netcom.com says... >> >>I need to fix the icons on my WIN95 desktop. >> >>I want to place them on the screen and lock them so they cannot be >moved >>by my WIfe (and her interfering fingers). >> >>I don't just want to turn on 'Auto Arrange' as she knows how to find >this. >> >Hi Shaun, > When I used to run Win3.1 I had the same problem with my son. >What I did was to make the file that contained the desktop icons a "read >only" file (I don't remember the file name). If there is a similar >arrangement in Win95 this could be your answer. > >Gool Luck, Bill > > What you might wanna do is to create a user for your wife, so that she would have her own user name on your comp. The if she moves or changes something it will change only for her. **************************************** -=���=- ��... ��d �i�e j�$T |<��P$ $ܢKing ...�� if ya don't like it -> don't read it ��b��� B�|>�M��� ****************************************
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10c888,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c888,public X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: 105a37,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid105a37,public X-Google-Thread: f8433,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8433,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: 108c3c,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c3c,public X-Google-Thread: fad41,3e52af8608803242 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad41,public From: dakd00d@geocities.com (Stalin) Subject: Re: HELP !!! I need to stop my Wife moving the shortcuts on my desktop WIN95 Date: 1996/12/19 Message-ID: <32b921d8.28673796@news.sans.vuw.ac.nz> X-Deja-AN: 204893227 references: <01bbe1e9$6ffb7280$75ae20cc@shaun> <597e1r$aug@news.istar.ca> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: MVD mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Stalin newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,demon.ip.support.win95,it.comp.win95,kiel.computer.windows.win95,microsoft.public.win95.setup,tw.bbs.comp.mswindows.win95,uiuc.sw.win95,uk.comp.os.win95