ASP.NET Machine A... User Account - [cross posted from another NG]

[Howard Cross]

Cheers,

I was looking through my user accounts and found one that I didn't know that
I have...? It's called ASP.NET Machine A... The O/S is XP Home.

The information displayed in the User Accounts window is that it is a
limited account that is password protected. The only thing that I've done to
this machine lately was upgrade to Office 2003. Was this something that
Office did because of the .net framework?

Is this necessary? How can I delete it?

TIA

-- howard

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Howard;
The account was created when you installed the Windows .NET Framework
1.1
update from Windows Update.
The account is used by .NET Framework enabled applications to run in a
lower
and therefore a more secure context then running under your account
(which
may be an administrator or some other highly privileged account).
Removal or modification of this account may break any .NET Framework
applications if IIS is installed. (There are already a few out there
and significantly more on
their way).
Borrowed from Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

See also:
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/windowsxp/aspdot.htm

 

[Howard Cross]

Thanks Jupiter, I appreciate the quick feedback. -- Happy New Year!

I checked my TabletPC and see that Office 2003 didn't create the account. So
I must have unknowingly installed the .net framework. That's fine, but what
do I do with this? I don't have IIS installed on this system. How do I use
it???

Thanks,

-- howard

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Howard;
Just leave it alone is the best.
If you delete it and later need it, you would need to reinstall .Net
Framework again.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html

 

[Howard Cross]

Thanks!

-- howard