Help with users account

[newbie]

I have windows XP pro.
I have one administrative account and created two limited users account.
Now I find that in my users account another account has been created.
As far as I know I have not created this account.
The account is limited account and is password protected.
The name of the account is :

ASP.NET
Machine A ...

I will be thankful if any one kindly let me know about this account and what
should I do about it.
Thanks.

 

[S.Sengupta]

What is the ASP.NET Machine Account?
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[newbie]

Thanks for the link SS.
But I don't do any asp.net development work, then why it was installed in my
computer?
In what way it is helping me?
Was it installed by MS?
Suppose I delete it now can I safely install at later date if I need one?
Regards.


S.Sengupta wrote:
|| What is the ASP.NET Machine Account?
|| http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php
||
|| regards,
|| S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
||
|| newbie wrote:
||
||| I have windows XP pro.
||| I have one administrative account and created two limited users
||| account. Now I find that in my users account another account has
||| been created.
||| As far as I know I have not created this account.
||| The account is limited account and is password protected.
||| The name of the account is :
|||
||| ASP.NET
||| Machine A ...
|||
||| I will be thankful if any one kindly let me know about this account
||| and what should I do about it.
||| Thanks.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the link SS.
But I don't do any asp.net development work, then why it was
installed in my computer?

Because you willy-nilly allow Windows to download and install ALL updates,
whether you actually need them or not. This was installed as part of the
Automatic Windows Update process.

 

[newbie]

Gordon wrote:
|| ||| Thanks for the link SS.
||| But I don't do any asp.net development work, then why it was
||| installed in my computer?
||
|| Because you willy-nilly allow Windows to download and install ALL
|| updates, whether you actually need them or not. This was installed
|| as part of the Automatic Windows Update process.

Thanks Gordon for the information.