Duplicate Administrator set of folders

[Eduardo Pietri]

1. For some reason, after I logged on in Safe Mode, my computer created a
second set of folders for the Administrator account. The set of folders
look exactly the same as the one that existed before, but the account name
in the main folder is Administrator.OFFICE, where OFFICE is this computer's
name in my home network. I know that Windows does that when it cannot read
the existing set of folders, but I don't know how to fix the problem now.

I've tried to delete the older Administrator folders and rename the new
Administrator folders without the ".OFFICE", but Windows re-creates the
folders again when I log on in Safe Mode. I've tried the Shell folders and
User Shell Folders entries in the Registry, but the system changes it back
again when I log on as an Administrator in Safe Mode. All the entries in
the Registry has the ".OFFICE" appended.

2. On a related, or not, problem, I tried to enable the Administrator log on
in my Welcome screen but it doesn't work. I've tried a couple of utilities
available from other MVP's but they don't work. At one time it showed up
when I was switching users, but it asked me for a password and I had none.
I tried pressing ENTER at the prompt but didn't work either.

A couple of questions:

1. How can I reset/clean up the whole Administrator thing so that only one
set of folders show up under Documents and Settings, and WITHOUT the
".OFFICE" appended?

2. How do I enable the Administrator account in my Welcome screen?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You don't say if you're running Home or Pro. If you're running Home, you cannot enable the Administrator account on the Welcome Screen. Well, you can, but it won't let you log in. You can only access the built in Administrator account in Safe Mode for XP Home.

It sounds as if you set up a second account, called Administrator, when you installed XP. If this is the case, then the system has no choice but to modify the folder structure for the built in Administrator account. Many of the files and folders are created the first time the account is logged into, not when the account is created.