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Re: Tweakui

Subject: Re: Tweakui
From: "S"
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:33:13 +0100
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:%23OFsVoW2IHA.3756@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I only have 2 accounts, mine which is administrator and the other
>> which is guest, I have set in `administrator` to hide D drive icon
>> which it does but when I switch to `guest` it shows.
>>
>>
>> "Iceman" <ismand_57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23A3G5lV2IHA.528@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:28:37 +0100, S wrote in message
>>> <news:khw9k.70765$GF6.62103@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is the correct forum.
>>>>
>>>> I use Tweakui and one of the things I do is to hide my other
>>>> hardrive icon
>>>> (D drive)  this works fine but the other day I logged on to the
>>>> guest sign
>>>> in and found that despite hiding the icon on my desktop it still
>>>> shows under
>>>> guest.
>>>> Under guest I accessed tweakui but it then it would not let me open
>>>> up the
>>>> drives.(so that I could change to `hide` the D drive icon)
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way around this as it kind of defeats the purpose as only
>>>> guests
>>>> use my `guest` log on.
>>>> Hope all this makes sense.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>
>>> If you have tried hiding the drive icons while logged on as
>>> Administrator, and that doesn't work either, you might consider
>>> creating a new, limited account (called "Visitor" or something like
>>> that), and then apply TweakUI. If that works, use the new account
>>> for guests.
>
> Try giving guest admin rights, do the change, then set it back to guest 
> rights.
>
I switched off `guest` account after creating a `visitor` accout and 
rebooted and did not have any icons on the desktop so could not log in. I 
rebooted in safe mode and used system restore to get back in.
What did I do wrong? 



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