Multiple profiles...I think

[Doug Main]

I'm a single user on a W2KPro machine, but I appear to have too many
profiles/users whatever they're really called set up following multiple
attempts to get a clean reinstall after a reformat. However I can't seem to
find a way to delete, reduce, manage them, and I worry about deleting stuff
that may be needed by some mysterious Windows force I haven't encountered
before.

In Windows Explorer, under C:\Documents and Settings, I see 8 different
folders:

administrator
Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
All Users
All Users.WINNT
Default User
Default User.WINNT
Doug Main
Doug Main.DOUG-different computer ID#

Most of them contain different desktop, History, Cookie and temp files (or
at last did before I cleaned 'em all up)

Control Panel | System | User Profiles shows only
Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #

This is what I log on as as well.

What are all the rest of these? Do I need to keep 'em? Where do I go to
clean up?

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

Appears you did an in-place upgrade or repair install. From a command
prompt;
set
should return with (among others)

ALLUSERSPROFILE=E:\Documents and Settings\All Users
USERPROFILE=E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator

So you're probably using these;
Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
All Users.WINNT
Default User.WINNT

You can verify by looking in;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I'm a single user on a W2KPro machine, but I appear to have too many
| profiles/users whatever they're really called set up following multiple
| attempts to get a clean reinstall after a reformat. However I can't seem
to
| find a way to delete, reduce, manage them, and I worry about deleting
stuff
| that may be needed by some mysterious Windows force I haven't encountered
| before.
|
| In Windows Explorer, under C:\Documents and Settings, I see 8 different
| folders:
|
| administrator
| Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
| All Users
| All Users.WINNT
| Default User
| Default User.WINNT
| Doug Main
| Doug Main.DOUG-different computer ID#
|
| Most of them contain different desktop, History, Cookie and temp files (or
| at last did before I cleaned 'em all up)
|
| Control Panel | System | User Profiles shows only
| Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
|
| This is what I log on as as well.
|
| What are all the rest of these? Do I need to keep 'em? Where do I go to
| clean up?
|
| Thanks
|
| --
| Doug Main
| "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
|
|

 

[Doug Main]

So you're probably using these;
Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
All Users.WINNT
Default User.WINNT

You can verify by looking in;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Yep. Found all that. Thanks for the guidance. So, for the other 5 folders
I have, can I just delete via Windows Explorer? I have delprof.exe but it
only shows Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #

 

[Dave Patrick]

You might move or just rename them for now. Then if all looks OK next week
or so delete them.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave Patrick wrote:
|
| > So you're probably using these;
| > Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
| > All Users.WINNT
| > Default User.WINNT
| >
| > You can verify by looking in;
| > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
| >
| Yep. Found all that. Thanks for the guidance. So, for the other 5
folders
| I have, can I just delete via Windows Explorer? I have delprof.exe but it
| only shows Administrator.DOUG-computer ID #
|
| --
| Doug Main
| "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
|
|