new "default" folder under c:\docs&settings\<username>\

[Grumps]

Seeing a new folder "default" under c:\docs&settings\<username>\ (am
using SP3)
NB. not to be confused with All Users and Default User at the same
level as <username>

Anybody know where this comes from? It contains the same stuff as you
get under All/Default User(s) which is why its a problem. IE is has a
duplicated item (shortcut) under Startup and hence I get 2 programs
pointed to by shortcut.

So is this a folder created by Windows? (must be surely) or could
something else have created it?
Cheers.

 

[R. McCarty]

Some OEM computers setup accounts using either "Customer" or
similar names. Is it possible you've run or allowed to run a vendor
based utility that created the profile ?
Does the newly created profile have a .ComputerName appended
to it ? Also if you check the Username applet in Control Panel is
there a entry called "Default" ?

 

[Grumps]

 Some OEM computers setup accounts using either "Customer" or

similar names. Is it possible you've run or allowed to run a vendor
based utility that created the profile ?
 Does the newly created profile have a .ComputerName appended
to it ? Also if you check the Username applet in Control Panel is
there a entry called "Default" ?

Blimey. I created the account. "Default" is not the account,
<username> is. So I have
C:\Docs&Settings\<username>\default\ which contains all the usual
gubbings (desktop, startup etc etc)

The following may explain (or confuse even more!)
- when account is created the profile is defined to be stored
centrally ie USUALLY the client XP workstation doesn't have
c:\Docs&Settings\<username>

So I need to ask myself, under what circumstances does a local c:
\Docs&Settings\<username> get created? Will look at this now.
(Still doesn't explain where C:\Docs&Settings\<username>\DEFAULT\
comes from)
Cheers.

 

[Grumps]

I've worked out where c:\Docs&Settings\<username>\default comes from.
Its
c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\default
This may have been created when we installed XP SP3 (and/or did a
Windows Update).

(The offending startup program being in c:\windows\system32\config
\systemprofile\default\start menu\program\startup.
Not sure where it got the offending program from but I'll delete it
and see what happens)
Cheers.