I’m getting tired of having to re-usefulize my favourites down to what are actually my favourites by getting rid of ‘customize links’ ‘windows media’ etc…blah…whatever.
Aside from the annoyance of the work involved - the principle of a person’s ‘favourites’ being assumed like that annoys me. Give me a folder named ‘favourites’ then bloody leave it clear for me to put ‘favourites’ in!
Roaming profile? Get yourself Pocket Firefox, customize as desired, and carry it around on a keychain. Everyone needs a couple gigabytes in their pocket at all times anyway.
Never mind. This is probably on a corporate network, isn’t it?
I pit this abomination: “re-usefulize.”
Shudder.
Check the All Users and Default User profiles and remove them from there.
This is the trick. It repopulates from the Default User profiles.
You’re syncing your Favorites, aren’t you – that can be a trick. What they said.
Google delicious.
Problem solved.
I did.
I also checked my profile folder on the filestore where the profiles are stored. I’ve checked every place I can thinkof.
I’m gonna check them all again now…
edit: Well I’ll be - there they were, in my profile’s filestore favourites. Well something has put them back because I swear I got rid.
edit2: Worryingly - I have access to other people’s documents and settings folders.
This is not good news - a major security issue - and you should bring it to the attention of your manager and the system administrator immediately. It’s trivial to fix, of course, but exact instructions would require knowledge of your security setup.
And after that, ask for a promotion! You deserve it after finding a huge security hole!
Documents and settings folders on a shared workplace computer is a major security issue? What do you think is in there, social security numbers and bank account passwords? Or do you think the world will end if Bob knows that Steve has a kitty-cat for his wallpaper?
Perhaps a 
after my post would have conveyed the thick sarcasm intended a bit more clearly.
No needed, Flander… I read you correctly. I think quartz is serious, tho.
I was being serious. I don’t know where Lobsang works but I’ve worked in places where security and confidentiality are taken very seriously indeed. I read this as permissions on a network, not local. The OP did say it was a roaming profile. Does his boss really want the OP to see everyone’s personal data? What about the person in HR who’s working on everyone’s salaries? What about the ability of one user to change data in another user’s profile? Then there’s the Data Protection Act, which may or may not apply.
I love the presumption that EITHER people are going to consider this a “major security breach” OR they don’t take security and confidentiality “very seriously indeed.”
What you should want is more information. Where I work, a shared computer has a D&S folder for everyone who has ever logged in. There will be absolutely nothing IN those folders. Also, just because I can see them, doesn’t mean I can open them – but even if I can, there’s nothing in there. No email. No images. No private data.
If he’s worried, he can send a polite query to his tech guys. There is a good chance they know all about this and it’s a non-issue.
I’m not worried at all. When I said ‘worryingly’ I was refering to the general ‘worrying’ aspect of it, not to my own worry.
Truthfully I have told one of our tech guys before. His response was rougly “Meh, It’s probably cos you’re a local admin”
Heh, suddenly I am certain that they aren’t too concernerned. (bolding mine)