Multiple Users Question

[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

 

[Yves Leclerc]

This as been answered here before!!!

The "Administrator" is used during the inital set up.

"All Users" is used to "share" the programs that are install. Common
location

"David" is you

DO NOT REMOVE ANY OF THESE! You will screw up XP is do!

 

[Dave B]

Bows head in shame -

But thank you Yves -
I guess 3 of everything is better than one :<( I'm sure it has been
answered before because it makes absolutely no sense from a user standpoint.

I will leave them as you say.

Merci

 

[Bob I]

Yves was trying to tell you that the question you asked again had been
answered the other time you asked it. You are only guilty of reposting
the same question rather looking at the replies to your previous
posting. The "3 of everything" is an incorrect assumption. There is a
"reason for each", in this case there are 3, add another user and there
will be 4 instead of 3.

 

[Dave B]

Bob - that's interesting.

Not to belabor the point, when did I ask it? This is a new computer, which
has been a total disaster. Came with preinstalled corrupt Win XP files, and
a questionable modem. I've had it about 5 weeks, and it was useless for the
first 3.5 of them.

Did I ask this before? I did a find on this site before I posed the
question and found nothing. If I posted the same question before, how/where
were you able to find it?

FWIW - not much
Thx
Dave

 

[Bob I]

Simply do a search for messages with your name as the author.