How to delete icons on a non-administrative account?

Hi,

I've set up regular user account (not administrator) for my girlfriend on my computer.

When I install a program or a game the icon for that software appear on my girlfriends desktop as well as mine.

I've tried to log on to her user account and delete those icons to clean up her desktop since she will definitively not use those programs or games, but I'm not allowed to delete them since I need an administrator account to do so...

Now I am the administrator on my own account but how can I delete those icons on her desktop? Do I have to make it a temporary administrator account every time I want to delete an icon?

Thank you for the help.

Thank you for the quick reply!

I always use the "only your user account" when I can, but it seems like a very few programs has this ability so most program still get installed for her account as well.

Since your user account is an administrator account, you should be able to open her C:\Users\(user-name) folder, click on Continue when prompted to give permission to open it, then open her Desktop folder to delete the shortcuts.

I guess I do this from my own account? I'll try this when I get back from work next week :)

Great!

Thanks!

Hi again,

Now I'm back from work and went into the Desktop folder on my girlfriends user account.

Unfortunately I only find two icons there... And both of them are icons she wants to have.

The icons I want to delete are not present here...

In my own Desktop folder though, I find all those icons as I would expect.

Any ideas?

Great!

I had to move the icons from the hidden public folder to my own Desktop folder. If not I deleted the icon on both my and her desktops.

Thank you for the help!