Documents & Settings user folder

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Hi,

I've just reinstalled XP SP1 on my computer named DELL and when I look
in the Documents & Settings folder I can find 2 folders with my name :
One is simply Joe
the second is Joe.DELL (which is the active one)

In my previous XP SP1 installation, I just had a Joe folder
can somebody explain me why I now have a Joe.DELL ? and if i can
remove it

FYI, I can also find a "Default User" and a "Default User.WINDOWS" and
a "All Users" and a "All Users.WINDOWS". I didn't had these .WINDOWS
folders previously

Thanks for your help

Joe

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"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<#Kk$C9OrEHA.2340@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Joe Mannix wrote on 07-Oct-2004 4:06 PM:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just reinstalled XP SP1 on my computer named DELL and when I look
> > in the Documents & Settings folder I can find 2 folders with my name :
> > One is simply Joe
> > the second is Joe.DELL (which is the active one)
> >
> > In my previous XP SP1 installation, I just had a Joe folder
> > can somebody explain me why I now have a Joe.DELL ? and if i can
> > remove it
> >
> > FYI, I can also find a "Default User" and a "Default User.WINDOWS" and
> > a "All Users" and a "All Users.WINDOWS". I didn't had these .WINDOWS
> > folders previously
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Joe
> When you did the reinstall, the installer created these profiles for
> Default User and All Users with the suffix. When you created a "joe"
> account, there was already a joe folder in your D&S, but it is an orphan
> (it has no SID, it is only a folder, not an account). Faced with this
> situation, Windows added a suffix to create a unique folder for your joe
> account.


I've reinstalled and everything is fine now
Thanks for your help.

Joe