Seems like too many XP accounts....

[gregf]

I'm managing several PCs at an internet cafe, one PC as of the last
week or so, has under Documents and Settings far too many accounts it
would seem. The Administrator and Cafe accounts should be there, but it
lists the following:
admin
Administrator
All Users
All Users. WINDOWS
Cafe4
Cafe
CAFE FOUR
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
LocalService
LocalService.NT AUTHORITY
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT AUTHORITY

The login screen only has logins for Administrator and Cafe 4.
I don't know where the others came from, or if it's OK to just delete
the whole things. Seems like I've done this before on a PC that had a
user named A. I deleted it and found out I deleted the customer (cafe)
account even though that account was still listed in Documents &
Settings. Weird...I'm a little confused as to what all this means. All
the PCs here have the same software/updates/service packs and basic
setup/logons, yet this one is the only one with this many accounts.
Coincidentally, something is making this PC extremely slow, and it's
not a virus, spyware, lack of RAM, or anything else I can find as of
yet.

 

[Guest]

Basically it looks like this PC has had several reinstallations take place
and none done professionally.

Go to CONTROL PANEL> USER ACCOUNTS and identify the valid User Account
Names. You will not find all the account name here that are viewed at:
C:\Documents and Settings

So then, delete any unwanted 'user name' folders. FOr safety caopy off all
the data to CD just in case some unpleasant character stored valuable
information in the wrong place.

As for performance: this usually happens when communications applications
are in the startup folder. Things like iTunes or cell phone synchronisers
etc all take up resource and keep polling the comms ports looking for their
mates.

It can also happen when the system registry gets filled with redundant or
spurious entries. Nortons Utilities will help clean up registry and a few
other things.

A disk defrag always help move thigns along faster.

Changing the display settings from 32 bit back to 16 bit makes a big
difference also.