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I appriciate your valuable and clear explanations. I learned a lot.
But can you tell me why I have duplicated account folders, for example:
All Users and All Users.Windows
Default Users and Default Users.Windows
LocalService and LocalService.NT Authority and LocalService.001
only to mention these ones.
It's troubling for me.
Fernand
"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:25:40 +0200, Fernand Thill wrote:
>
>> How can I find out the relation (or connection) between an user account
>> and
>> the associated computer settings (folders uner Documents and Settings).
>> On
>> my home XP PC I have only one account ( my name with administrator
>> privileges) but a lot of user related folders under "Documents and
>> Settings". Which one is associated with my user account? Knowing this can
>> I
>> delete all the remainig? Where can I find these informations?
>> Thanks for help
>> Fernand
>
> Click Start> Run and type in %userprofile%
> Click OK and Windows Explorer will open with the focus on the folders for
> the account that is currently logged on.
>
> Other account folders that you might see under Documents and Settings:
>
> Administrator: this is a built in account named Administrator (and belongs
> to the administrator group) that is created when XP is first installed.
> Create another user account and this one will drop off of the welcome
> screen. This account should be kept as it is especially handy as a "spare"
> if your account corrupts to the point that you can't log on. It is also a
> useful account for troubleshooting purposes.
>
> All Users: Contains settings that relate to all users.
>
> Default User: A template used to create new accounts.
>
> Local Service: a machine account used by programs to perform functions on
> behalf of the user.
>
> Network Service: also a machine account but info stored is related to
> network/internet.
>
> I do not recommend deleting any of the above account folders.
>
> If there are users that no longer need an account, delete them from
> Control
> Panel> User Accounts. Then check Documents and Settings. If there are any
> folders left for user that was removed, they can be deleted.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User