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can someone help to sort out this muddle - we're totally confused and dont
know what to delete.
we installed XP and Sp2 over an earlier version of XP on my wife's machine -
we overwrote it rather than upgraded.
viewing through windows explorer, under documents and settings, there are 7
'user' listings (vs 3 folders on my machine for 'all users', 'default
users', and 'frank')
the 7 'users' listed are:administrator, all users, all users.windows,
default user, default user.windows, helene, helene.computer_2 (helene is my
wifes name and computer_2 is the computer name)
Under the user 'helene' there are all the typical user folders and files
including her documents - this we assume is left over from the old version
of xp and we should be able to copy the documents over tothe user -
helene.computer_2, which appears to be the new and currently empty user (we
altered the computer name slightly during the installation to computer_2 so
we think this user name identifies it as the new windows installation.
Assuming these two user names are sorted out this way, what about the
remaining ones, how can we figure which can be safely deleted -
administrator, all users, all users.windows, default user, default
user.windows
thanks for any housecleaning help
Frank
can someone help to sort out this muddle - we're totally confused and dont
know what to delete.
we installed XP and Sp2 over an earlier version of XP on my wife's machine -
we overwrote it rather than upgraded.
viewing through windows explorer, under documents and settings, there are 7
'user' listings (vs 3 folders on my machine for 'all users', 'default
users', and 'frank')
the 7 'users' listed are:administrator, all users, all users.windows,
default user, default user.windows, helene, helene.computer_2 (helene is my
wifes name and computer_2 is the computer name)
Under the user 'helene' there are all the typical user folders and files
including her documents - this we assume is left over from the old version
of xp and we should be able to copy the documents over tothe user -
helene.computer_2, which appears to be the new and currently empty user (we
altered the computer name slightly during the installation to computer_2 so
we think this user name identifies it as the new windows installation.
Assuming these two user names are sorted out this way, what about the
remaining ones, how can we figure which can be safely deleted -
administrator, all users, all users.windows, default user, default
user.windows
thanks for any housecleaning help
Frank