LocalService and NetworkService

[brogue6150]

Using WinXP SP2. My original Documents and Settings folder contained
only 4 users, Administrator, All Users, Default User and my personal
user folder. Now it appears that a LocalService and a NetworkService
user has been added. Not sure how or when this happened but are they
necessary and can I delete them? TIA for any information.

 

[Guest]

Actually those two items, in my experience have always been there it is when
we allow hidden files and folders to be seen to we; the users actually see
them. In my experience it is not a good idea to delete those.

Robert
A+, Net+ and MCP

 

[brogue6150]

Thanks for the info. That makes sense since I recently made the System
Information folder visible while investigating some malware problems.
I'll disable that and see what happens.

 

[brogue6150]

Thanks for the response. I just remembered that I had enabled
visibility for the System Information folder while investigating some
malware issues. I disabled that and the 2 folders were again hidden.
Any information on what LocalService and NetworkService are used for?

Rick