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Hi

I went to....... System properties\Advanced\User Profiles\Settings.
And I noticed there was two Profiles there.

One for......... Paul\Administrator...839 KB.
and the other. Paul\Dad.................1.47GB.

I thought there would be only one profile there! Is this correct or do I
have to delete one of them?

I am the Administrator and sole user on my PC.


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p.mc wrote:
> I went to....... System properties\Advanced\User Profiles\Settings.
> And I noticed there was two Profiles there.
>
> One for......... Paul\Administrator...839 KB.
> and the other. Paul\Dad.................1.47GB.
>
> I thought there would be only one profile there! Is this correct or
> do I have to delete one of them?
>
> I am the Administrator and sole user on my PC.

Documents and Settings is the directory that contains your user
information/documents/etc. It also contains a few extra directories used by
Windows.

One is "Default User" - This is used whenever a new account is created. It
bases the initial setup of that account off this directory.

Another is "All Users" - This is used by.. all users. If you want something
to appear on the desktop of every user of the machine, you put it on this
users desktop (in the desktop folder.) Etc.

You may also see "Administrator" - depending on your setup, this is the
original administrator user and if you know that account's password, you
should leave him alone and use him only in an emergency.

You could also (if you have it where you can see ALL files) see
"LocalService" and "NetworkService" folders. These are service accounts,
normally unused by the standard user.

Should you erase any of the above? No. No reason to. The only ones that a
single user will really ever use is the one under their username (ie:
whatever username you log in with) and the "All Users" account. If
something goes wrong(or you add a new user), the default user will be used
(recreated if not there) to create the new account needed. The
Administrator account will hopefully never be used and would just be
recreated if you logged in as administrator (assuming you even have the
user - which you do.) Sometimes your account may be listed as "owner" or
"administrator" under the documents and settings folder.. This all depends
on how things were setup. The name you use and the name of the folder do
NOT have to correspond if the name was changed manually after the account
was created initially.

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