Documents and Settings

[Hans L]

In my Windows XP Home SP2 Documents and Settings, I have the following
folders (in addition to some others, not relevant here):


Administrator
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner1"
"Owner2"

Note: Owner 1 and 2 are aliases I use here for the real names of the
two folders.


I seem to remember that when I repaired or did something similar with
windows a year back, these folders were created:


Administrator [certainly replacing a previous version]
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner2"

and these folders were remnants from the "pre-repair" windows:

All Users
Default User
"Owner1"


Any explanation to how these remnants could remain -- should they not
have been deleted and entirely replaced by the new folders?

I have now put the remnants in a separate folder with a random name in
order to see what happens. If nothing happens, I guess I can delete
them???

Greatful for some comments on this.

Hans L

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[Shenan Stanley]

In my Windows XP Home SP2 Documents and Settings, I have the
following folders (in addition to some others, not relevant here):


Administrator
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner1"
"Owner2"

Note: Owner 1 and 2 are aliases I use here for the real names of
the two folders.


I seem to remember that when I repaired or did something similar
with windows a year back, these folders were created:


Administrator [certainly replacing a previous version]
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner2"

and these folders were remnants from the "pre-repair" windows:

All Users
Default User
"Owner1"


Any explanation to how these remnants could remain -- should they
not have been deleted and entirely replaced by the new folders?

I have now put the remnants in a separate folder with a random name
in order to see what happens. If nothing happens, I guess I can
delete them???

The file/folder permissions likely prevented them from being erased or some
built in mechanism in Windows.
Erase everything in each one (take ownership if you have to) and then delete
the folders, if you like.

 

[Hans L]

In my Windows XP Home SP2 Documents and Settings, I have the
following folders (in addition to some others, not relevant here):


Administrator
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner1"
"Owner2"

Note: Owner 1 and 2 are aliases I use here for the real names of
the two folders.


I seem to remember that when I repaired or did something similar
with windows a year back, these folders were created:


Administrator [certainly replacing a previous version]
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User.WINDOWS
"Owner2"

and these folders were remnants from the "pre-repair" windows:

All Users
Default User
"Owner1"


Any explanation to how these remnants could remain -- should they
not have been deleted and entirely replaced by the new folders?

I have now put the remnants in a separate folder with a random name
in order to see what happens. If nothing happens, I guess I can
delete them???

The file/folder permissions likely prevented them from being erased
or some built in mechanism in Windows. Erase everything in each one
(take ownership if you have to) and then delete the folders, if you
like.

Thanks for the info, Shenan.

Hans L
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