Start Menus

[Lee]

My machine has four profiles including me as administrator. Yet in Documents
and Settings there are Start menus not only for the four profiles, but also
or Administrator, Administrator.Home (The name of the machine), Default
User, Default user.Windows, All Users, All users.Windows.

Documents and shortcuts to apps get placed in a variety of these menus and
this sometimes makes finding things unnecessarily difficult as well as
making housekeeping a pain. Do I need all these? Can I safely remove them?



TIA

L

 

[Guest]

From looking at this - Default
User, Default user.windows, it looks like your machine has had windows
reinstalled without reformatting.

You can't delete these default user folders and you can't delete 'all
users'. If you use the administrator's account on your machine
(administrator.home) then you keep that. If you don't use the other
administrator account then oyu can delete it as but make sure there's no
favourites or anything in there that you want.

When my 'documents and settings' looked like that I reformattedbecause I'm
very fussy.

To safely remove one of the default user folder and one of the all users
folder you need to determine which ones windows ius using at the moment.

Is it 'default' or 'default.windows'. When you know which one is currently
being used, you can delete the other one. There are two because when you
reinstalled windows, you did not reformat the drive (remove everything) there
windows just overwrote all of the folders, but because wondows couldnt use
the same names it had to change them slightly.

I know I've waffled a bit but I hope that makes sense.

 

[Drew Tognola]

Lee,

Do not remove these. You will lose data by doing so. They all have a
purpose. I'm not exactly sure what will be lost but you will lose data for
sure. Better safe than sorry. Read other posts for more knowledgable info.

Drew

My machine has four profiles including me as administrator. Yet in Documents
and Settings there are Start menus not only for the four profiles, but also
or Administrator, Administrator.Home (The name of the machine), Default
User, Default user.Windows, All Users, All users.Windows.

Documents and shortcuts to apps get placed in a variety of these menus and
this sometimes makes finding things unnecessarily difficult as well as
making housekeeping a pain. Do I need all these? Can I safely remove them?



TIA

L