Mystery User Profiles

[Guest]

Hello All,

I was poking around in Windows Explorer the other day and noticed
something odd .............. Ther were 2 extra user profiles in C:\documents
and settings
they were listed below Administrator:
Administrator.user
Administrator.user.000

Just for fun, I deleted those 2 mystery additional user profiles, only to
have them recreate themselves. The box seems fine in the 2 additional user
profiles I created. I have not logged in under the administrator acct. yet.
Any one have any ideas what causes this, what it will hurt if ignored, or how
to fix this


As I always suggest,

Please be careful out there !

PS/ no trees were destroyed to post this

However millions of electrons were terribly inconvenienced

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Login as "Administrator", and then type this command in Start.Run:

%Userprofile%

The folder that opens is the home path for the in-built "Administrator"
account. The other two profile folders can be deleted.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello All,

I was poking around in Windows Explorer the other day and noticed
something odd .............. Ther were 2 extra user profiles in C:\documents
and settings
they were listed below Administrator:
Administrator.user
Administrator.user.000

Just for fun, I deleted those 2 mystery additional user profiles, only to
have them recreate themselves. The box seems fine in the 2 additional user
profiles I created. I have not logged in under the administrator acct. yet.
Any one have any ideas what causes this, what it will hurt if ignored, or
how
to fix this


As I always suggest,

Please be careful out there !

PS/ no trees were destroyed to post this

However millions of electrons were terribly inconvenienced