Win10 Accounts

[astrit_arsllani]

Hello all

 

I have a question regarding accounts on win10!

 

When i do create the account windows does the first startup or setup thing and there are alredy icons of the softwares and games that are installed in the computer on her desktop, and if i delete them they will be deleted in my main account also!

 

yes i can go back to my account and make a copy of the software in my desktop, but when i do that the icon thumbnail is blanc,

 

 

This is what bugs me out and dont know any solution, thats why i need help! 

 

my main accounts that i use i local, i dont connect it with my hotmail/windows login, i tried creating accounts both thge local way and online way but the same everytime.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, astrit_arsllani said:

When i do create the account windows does the first startup or setup thing and there are alredy icons of the softwares and games that are installed in the computer on her desktop, and if i delete them they will be deleted in my main account also!

Nope, just the desktop shortcuts, the use can still use the programs too

 

Do

8 minutes ago, astrit_arsllani said:

yes i can go back to my account and make a copy of the software in my desktop, but when i do that the icon thumbnail is blanc,

 

don't copy new shotcut of the program.

[GoodBytes]

18 hours ago, astrit_arsllani said:

When i do create the account windows does the first startup or setup thing and there are alredy icons of the softwares and games that are installed in the computer on her desktop, and if i delete them they will be deleted in my main account also!

These are installed per user accounts. If you remove them, you'll still have it.

More specifically, these are Universal Windows Platform apps  (UWP for short), and all those apps (which are found in the Store app in Windows 10) are installed and operated on a per user account. Everything in the Store is a UWP app.

 

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yes i can go back to my account and make a copy of the software in my desktop, but when i do that the icon thumbnail is blanc,

These apps are installed in a folder that is not normally accessible. How did you do a backup? You can't just backup them, and restore them. There is registry keys that needs to be setup.

 

 

[astrit_arsllani]

i do i system restore to get things back up the way the were ..... this is really strange thing that happens to me...still cant understand why deleting software/games shortcuts on her accounts deletes the icons in my desktop alsoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GoodBytes]

1 minute ago, astrit_arsllani said:

i do i system restore to get things back up the way the were ..... this is really strange thing that happens to me...still cant understand why deleting software/games shortcuts on her accounts deletes the icons in my desktop alsoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

I miss understood you, it seems.

 

A Win32 program can create start menu shortcuts for either the current user only, or all users.

That is why you sometimes see, depending on the dev on how they made the setup, have this option:

 

You have 2 Start Menu folder where shortcuts are stored, which are merged by the Start Menu.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

and

C:\Users\<ACCOUNT NAME>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

 

If you delete the shortcut that is found in the first path mentioned, it will delete for all users. You need elevated credential to delete, rename, or add move anything inside.

If you delete the shortcut that is found in the second path mentioned, it will delete it just for you.

 

So in your case, you want to move the shortcut from the path of all users (first one), and paste it to your account. Now, only YOU will have the game/program visible in the Start Menu. All users will need to browse through file explorer to access the program and run it, if they really want to (you can set permissions to block other users for files and folders)