Mulitple Users Folders

[Dave]

This is from the "Another Thing I Never Understood About Win XP" department.
I am the only users of this comp. Yet under c:\Documents and Settings I
have three folders, essentially the same (I guess) - Administrator, All
Users and David.
The last appears to include echo everything I put in My Documents.

Do I really need all 3 folders? I'm beginning to understand the big push
for 40-120 gig HDs.

BTW, I don't do music, photos, etc., just boring old words and numbers.

Thanks

Dave

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

This is from the "Another Thing I Never Understood About Win XP" department.
I am the only users of this comp. Yet under c:\Documents and Settings I
have three folders, essentially the same (I guess) - Administrator, All
Users and David.
The last appears to include echo everything I put in My Documents.

Do I really need all 3 folders? I'm beginning to understand the big push
for 40-120 gig HDs.

BTW, I don't do music, photos, etc., just boring old words and numbers.

Thanks

Dave

You actually have some hidden ones too!

Administrator: This profile gets created at setup time, because
the process uses the Administrator account to do its job.

All Users: Any shortcut that gets placed into the Desktop or into
the Start Menu folder of the "All Users" profile will be visible to
all users, as the name suggests. This is important when several
people wish to use the PC.

Default User (hidden): This is the template profile that Windows
uses when creating a new user profile. If you remove it then new
users will be unable to log on.

David: This is where you might store your own stuff.

The first three profiles consume very little disk space. Don't
worry about them - just leave them alone!

 

[Bob I]

To be precise, "you" don't need them, the Operating system does. Leave
them alone. To simplify, the Administrator account is for maintenance,
"All Users" is for "common items for all accounts, and "you" are using
"David". If you "hose" the "David" profile, you would log in with the
Administrator account and create new or repair.

 

[Stan Brown]

This is from the "Another Thing I Never Understood About Win XP" department.
I am the only users of this comp. Yet under c:\Documents and Settings I
have three folders, essentially the same (I guess) - Administrator, All
Users and David.
The last appears to include echo everything I put in My Documents.

Do I really need all 3 folders? I'm beginning to understand the big push
for 40-120 gig HDs.

Administrator is a system account that you can't get rid of. It is
accessible in Safe Mode, so make sure you have passworded it.

My Documents isn't an root-level actual folder, however. It's
simply a pointer to "Documents and Settings\David\My Documents" so
it's not taking up extra space.