Documents and Settings folders

[Harry]

XP Home Edition SP1

Some questions about the 'Documents and Settings' Folders.

I have one password protected Administrator's account called Harry set up
and no others. Guest Account is switched off.

In the 'Documents and Settings' folder the are 4 Account folders, namely:
All Users, Default User, Guest & Me; each one of which has a sub-folder
called Start Menu.

The only one of these Start Menu sub-folders that reflects the Start Menu I
see when, from the Desktop, (using Classic Start Menu) I click on
Start\Programs, is the All Users account folder.

However, if I right-click on the Task Bar, select Properties, click on the
Start menu Tab, select Customize, then select Advanced, it takes me directly
to the Start Menu sub-folder in the Me account folder. This is virtually
empty, having no shortcuts to any of my programs. Therefore, if I want to
customize the Start Menu I actually use I have to go to the All Users
account folder and change the Start Menu folder from there!

Why is this happening and which, if any of the four Account folders in
Documents and Settings can I safely delete

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have one password protected Administrator's account called Harry set up
and no others. Guest Account is switched off.

In the 'Documents and Settings' folder the are 4 Account folders, namely:
All Users, Default User, Guest & Me; each one of which has a sub-folder
called Start Menu.

The only one of these Start Menu sub-folders that reflects the Start Menu I
see when, from the Desktop, (using Classic Start Menu) I click on
Start\Programs, is the All Users account folder.

However, if I right-click on the Task Bar, select Properties, click on the
Start menu Tab, select Customize, then select Advanced, it takes me directly
to the Start Menu sub-folder in the Me account folder. This is virtually
empty, having no shortcuts to any of my programs. Therefore, if I want to
customize the Start Menu I actually use I have to go to the All Users
account folder and change the Start Menu folder from there!

Items in All Users refer to All Users - what you see is the sum of that
and any personal items in your own folder - so you can have items their
that are available to you and to no-one else. This is valuable in
machines that are used by a number of different users, each with their
own account; in a setup like yours you should use the All Users ones,
because that is where most new programs will probably put their entries.