Stop Icons From Showing up on Other User's Desktops

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I am the administrator and there are two other users on my machine running Home Premium 32.

When I install a new program the icon to run it often appears on the other desktops much to their annoyance - especially since they don't have admin status so it wont run.

If I just delete the icons they are deleted from my desktop also so the question is - How do i tidy up their desktops without affecting mine?
 

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Uninstall the applications that are doing this and then reinstall them and when they are installing it should give you an option for all users or current user only. Tick the current user box and continue installation.

For the ones that dont give that option then once they are installed right click on the programmes .exe and select properties. Then select the security tab and click Edit. Then select a user you dont want to have access to the programme and select remove and then OK

If they still see the shortcuts after that then you need to enable hidden folders in the folder options box then do this:

1- Click the vista starb orb then click on Computer
2- Double click on c: drive then double click on the Users folder
3- Go into each users folder and go to there desktop folder and delete the icons.
 

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