Folders that appear under the Documents and Settings

[Dave D.]

The name of the folders that appear under the Documents
and Settings folder for the various users are duplicating
themselves. Is this an XP "feature"? For example, I set up
4 user accounts - 2 with administrator rights, 2 with
limited access. After logging in to each user accounts, I
now have 8 folders for these 4 accounts rather than 4 as I
would have suspected. 4 of the folders are called by the
regular user account names, which are just people's names
(i.e. - joe). The other 4 are an extension added on after
a dot (.) which is the computer system name I chose to
give this PC (i.e. - COMPUTER1). So, using these example
names, I have a "joe" folder, as well as a "joe.COMPUTER1"
folder, and they both have almost (but not quite) the same
collection of sub-directories and files within them. I
tried to delete one of the ones with the extensions (i.e. -
joe.COMPUTER1) and got a message that said it could not
be deleted because the folder conained Windows system
files. Is this normal? If not, does anyone know how to
correct it? Thank you!

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

The name of the folders that appear under the Documents
and Settings folder for the various users are duplicating
themselves. Is this an XP "feature"? For example, I set up
4 user accounts - 2 with administrator rights, 2 with
limited access. After logging in to each user accounts, I
now have 8 folders for these 4 accounts rather than 4 as I
would have suspected. 4 of the folders are called by the
regular user account names, which are just people's names
(i.e. - joe). The other 4 are an extension added on after
a dot (.) which is the computer system name I chose to
give this PC (i.e. - COMPUTER1). So, using these example
names, I have a "joe" folder, as well as a "joe.COMPUTER1"
folder, and they both have almost (but not quite) the same
collection of sub-directories and files within them. I
tried to delete one of the ones with the extensions (i.e. -
joe.COMPUTER1) and got a message that said it could not
be deleted because the folder conained Windows system
files. Is this normal? If not, does anyone know how to
correct it? Thank you!

Something very odd here: - you should have a folder for each User, one for
Administrator, one for default user and one for All Users.