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274696 2004-09-22 22:15:00 Hi Fellow F1ers,

I have two users on my computer.... one for me and one for me girlfriend.

I like jazzing up my desktop with xp themes. She prefers the plain xp theme. This is the reason for the separate users.

BUT

I use Firefox and she uses IE.

I set Firefox as the default browser on my user, but it also makes the other user's default to be firefox too. How can I prevent this?

And I want some programs to load on start up in my user, but on the other users. Is this possible?


Mister Harbies
mister harbies (5607)
274697 2004-09-22 22:25:00 Could try this little app for setting the browser. Haven't tested it myself.

www.mvps.org
Biggles (121)
274698 2004-09-22 22:44:00 > And I want some programs to load on start up in my
> user, but on the other users. Is this possible?
>
>
> Mister Harbies

yes put your custom startup programs here
C:\Documents and Settings\<username > \Start Menu\Programs\Startup
each user can have different satrtup programs as well as the normal standard ones such as virus checker etc
beama (111)
274699 2004-09-22 22:46:00 smileys somtimes I just hate them.
Should be without the spaces
C:\Documents and Settings\ <username> \Start Menu\Programs\Startup
beama (111)
274700 2004-09-22 22:53:00 Hey Bruce,

Thanks for that. Just what I wanted.

Firefox was not one of the preset browsers to choose from, but they provided an option to select a broswer. Firefox works. Its perfect.


And Beama, thanks for the info about the startup programs


Mister Harbies
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