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What belongs in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService

 
 
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      24th Jun 2007
I clicked on My Computer>Local Disk C: > Documents and Settings. There I
found a folder called LocalService. Inside it I found a folder called Local
Settings and inside it a folder for Application Data. I wonder (1) Why the
Application Data folder isn't on the same level as Local Settings, as it is
in the user profiles. (2) Should I change the level of Application Data
folder?

The only item in the Application Data folder is a folder for Microsoft.
Inside the Microsoft folder are folders for Internet Explorer, Messenger,
Windows, Ofice, and Windows Media. These same folders exist in each user
profile. For items that affect more than one user why not use All Users?
What is customarily stored in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService?





I backed-up and clicked on LocalService and found folder named Application
Data and one called Local Settings.

What stired my interest was I wanted to determine where to store bookmark
and where to store the default settings for IE. What developed is more
generalized question about the distinction between Application Data and Local
Settings.








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      24th Jun 2007
"KCav" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>I clicked on My Computer>Local Disk C: > Documents and Settings. There I
> found a folder called LocalService. Inside it I found a folder called
> Local
> Settings and inside it a folder for Application Data. I wonder (1) Why the
> Application Data folder isn't on the same level as Local Settings, as it
> is
> in the user profiles. (2) Should I change the level of Application Data
> folder?
>
> The only item in the Application Data folder is a folder for Microsoft.
> Inside the Microsoft folder are folders for Internet Explorer, Messenger,
> Windows, Ofice, and Windows Media. These same folders exist in each user
> profile. For items that affect more than one user why not use All Users?
> What is customarily stored in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService?
>
> I backed-up and clicked on LocalService and found folder named Application
> Data and one called Local Settings.
>
> What stired my interest was I wanted to determine where to store bookmark
> and where to store the default settings for IE. What developed is more
> generalized question about the distinction between Application Data and
> Local
> Settings.


Leave things as they are.

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      24th Jun 2007
"KCav" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:80BE8676-29CB-4976-80C9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I clicked on My Computer>Local Disk C: > Documents and Settings. There I
> found a folder called LocalService. Inside it I found a folder called
> Local
> Settings and inside it a folder for Application Data. I wonder (1) Why the
> Application Data folder isn't on the same level as Local Settings, as it
> is
> in the user profiles. (2) Should I change the level of Application Data
> folder?
>
> The only item in the Application Data folder is a folder for Microsoft.
> Inside the Microsoft folder are folders for Internet Explorer, Messenger,
> Windows, Ofice, and Windows Media. These same folders exist in each user
> profile. For items that affect more than one user why not use All Users?
> What is customarily stored in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService?
>
>
>
>
>
> I backed-up and clicked on LocalService and found folder named Application
> Data and one called Local Settings.
>
> What stired my interest was I wanted to determine where to store bookmark
> and where to store the default settings for IE. What developed is more
> generalized question about the distinction between Application Data and
> Local
> Settings.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> KC


If you change anything there you could well disable some software.
Mike.


 
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      24th Jun 2007
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"Mike Cawood, HND BIT" wrote:

> "KCav" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:80BE8676-29CB-4976-80C9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I clicked on My Computer>Local Disk C: > Documents and Settings. There I
> > found a folder called LocalService. Inside it I found a folder called
> > Local
> > Settings and inside it a folder for Application Data. I wonder (1) Why the
> > Application Data folder isn't on the same level as Local Settings, as it
> > is
> > in the user profiles. (2) Should I change the level of Application Data
> > folder?
> >
> > The only item in the Application Data folder is a folder for Microsoft.
> > Inside the Microsoft folder are folders for Internet Explorer, Messenger,
> > Windows, Ofice, and Windows Media. These same folders exist in each user
> > profile. For items that affect more than one user why not use All Users?
> > What is customarily stored in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I backed-up and clicked on LocalService and found folder named Application
> > Data and one called Local Settings.
> >
> > What stired my interest was I wanted to determine where to store bookmark
> > and where to store the default settings for IE. What developed is more
> > generalized question about the distinction between Application Data and
> > Local
> > Settings.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > KC

>
> If you change anything there you could well disable some software.
> Mike.
>
>
>

 
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      24th Jun 2007
"KCav" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I clicked on My Computer>Local Disk C: > Documents and Settings. There I
> found a folder called LocalService. Inside it I found a folder called
> Local
> Settings and inside it a folder for Application Data. I wonder (1) Why the
> Application Data folder isn't on the same level as Local Settings, as it
> is
> in the user profiles. (2) Should I change the level of Application Data
> folder?
>
> The only item in the Application Data folder is a folder for Microsoft.
> Inside the Microsoft folder are folders for Internet Explorer, Messenger,
> Windows, Ofice, and Windows Media. These same folders exist in each user
> profile. For items that affect more than one user why not use All Users?
> What is customarily stored in C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService?


Information for the LocalService system account to use. Leave it alone.

HTH
-pk

> I backed-up and clicked on LocalService and found folder named Application
> Data and one called Local Settings.
>
> What stired my interest was I wanted to determine where to store bookmark
> and where to store the default settings for IE. What developed is more
> generalized question about the distinction between Application Data and
> Local
> Settings.
> --
> KC



 
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