Re: How to tidy up docs & settings folder.

Dale,

Don't just delete profile folders without putting some thought in to
this and backing up your system. With that said, the official way to
remove profile folders is by right-clicking My Computer, clicking
Properties, and then clicking Settings under User Profiles on the
Advanced tab. Select each profile you want to remove, and then click
Delete.

Here's the inside bit. Windows XP stores user profile information in the
following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Each subkey corresponds to a single user
profile folder, and the value ProfileImagePath contains the path to the
profile's folder. I'm betting that you can take it from there.

Be very careful.

Best, Jerry


-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Walker [mailto:dale@sorted.org]
Posted At: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:12 PM
Posted To: general
Conversation: How to tidy up docs & settings folder.
Subject: How to tidy up docs & settings folder.


After having to reinstall XP a few times over the last few years, I've
got some superfluous folders in my 'Documents and Settings' folders.

The Documents and Settings folder currently looks a bit like this
(showing hidden files)...

Administrator
Administrator.MYNET
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Dale.MYNET
Dale.MYNET.000
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
LocalService
LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY
LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY.000
LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY.001
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY.000
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY.001

As you can see, it's a bit of a mess.

Can I safely delete the older versions of LocalService & NetworkService?

Obviously, the most recent ones will most likely have the larger number
suffix numbers. Is there a safe way of renaming those suffixes so that
they simply become....

Administrator
All Users
Dale
Default User
LocalService
NetworkService

?


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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:53:30 -0600, "Jerry Honeycutt"
<jerry@honeycutt.com> wrote:

>Dale,
>
>Don't just delete profile folders without putting some thought in to
>this and backing up your system. With that said, the official way to
>remove profile folders is by right-clicking My Computer, clicking
>Properties, and then clicking Settings under User Profiles on the
>Advanced tab. Select each profile you want to remove, and then click
>Delete.

That's all done already. The superfluous profile folders are all
remnants from previous installations of XP and never appear on the
profile list.

>Here's the inside bit. Windows XP stores user profile information in the
>following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Each subkey corresponds to a single user
>profile folder, and the value ProfileImagePath contains the path to the
>profile's folder. I'm betting that you can take it from there.

Excellent. I can now see which folders are currently being used.

Still a little worried about the renaming part though.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dale Walker [mailto:dale@sorted.org]
>Posted At: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:12 PM
>Posted To: general
>Conversation: How to tidy up docs & settings folder.
>Subject: How to tidy up docs & settings folder.
>
>
>After having to reinstall XP a few times over the last few years, I've
>got some superfluous folders in my 'Documents and Settings' folders.
>
>The Documents and Settings folder currently looks a bit like this
>(showing hidden files)...
>
>Administrator
>Administrator.MYNET
>All Users
>All Users.WINDOWS
>Dale.MYNET
>Dale.MYNET.000
>Default User
>Default User.WINDOWS
>LocalService
>LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY
>LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY.000
>LocalService.NT.AUTHORITY.001
>NetworkService
>NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
>NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY.000
>NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY.001
>
>As you can see, it's a bit of a mess.
>
>Can I safely delete the older versions of LocalService & NetworkService?
>
>Obviously, the most recent ones will most likely have the larger number
>suffix numbers. Is there a safe way of renaming those suffixes so that
>they simply become....
>
>Administrator
>All Users
>Dale
>Default User
>LocalService
>NetworkService
>
>?
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Dale Walker: dale@sorted.org
>London Techno Events: london@sorted.org, london.sorted.org
>Saiko: saiko@sorted.org, saiko.sorted.org
>

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Dale Walker: dale@sorted.org
London Techno Events: london@sorted.org, london.sorted.org
Saiko: saiko@sorted.org, saiko.sorted.org