Under Docs & Settings.. have these extra folders

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Have You really reformated Your HDD or only "overinstalled" new XP
instalation on the old one ? It seems to be the old installation of XP
"under" the new one... The easiest way to check if You can delete particular
folder is to check if You have some lines with it in Your registry (try Menu
Start -> Run -> regedit -> F3 and write the name of the directory) If You
have something with it in registry - You should better leave it... Remember
that working with registry may corrupt You PC (I don't know how much do You
know about registry).
Good Luck !
 
They didn't format, they installed "over the top" like you used to with
Win9x. Something one should not do with WinXP. A repair install would have
avoided these consquences.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
thought so

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
They didn't format, they installed "over the top" like you used to with
Win9x. Something one should not do with WinXP. A repair install would have
avoided these consquences.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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bently said:
Recently reformatted and installed win XP home, SP2, all XP upgrades
Single computer, no networking.


Under Docs & Settings, the following folders are listed.

All Users
All users,WINDOWS
Default User
Default User,WINDOWS
LocalService
LocalService,WINDOWS
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
User
User1
user.USER-ZZS15P82OA
USER~1~USE

For past couple years, only 3 or 4 folders listed unders Docs &
Settings.


The folders from the list, listed below are all new to me, don't
have any idea how/why they got there.
All users,WINDOWS
Default User,WINDOWS
LocalService,WINDOWS
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
User1
user.USER-ZZS15P82OA
USER~1~USE



Computer appears to be working normally, but I wonder how and why
the EXTRA folders are there, and which FOLDERS I can SAFELY remove.
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Please hang up and try your format again.

(In other words - you did not FORMAT your old stuff off before you
installed. Boot from CD, follow through and this time - when it asks where
you want to install, DELTE the partition, create a new partition, format and
install.)
 
Recently reformatted and installed win XP home, SP2, all XP upgrades
Single computer, no networking.


Under Docs & Settings, the following folders are listed.

All Users
All users,WINDOWS
Default User
Default User,WINDOWS
LocalService
LocalService,WINDOWS
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
User
User1
user.USER-ZZS15P82OA
USER~1~USE

For past couple years, only 3 or 4 folders listed unders Docs & Settings.



The folders from the list, listed below are all new to me, don't have
any idea how/why they got there.
All users,WINDOWS
Default User,WINDOWS
LocalService,WINDOWS
NetworkService
NetworkService.NT.AUTHORITY
User1
user.USER-ZZS15P82OA
USER~1~USE



Computer appears to be working normally, but I wonder how and why the
EXTRA folders are there, and which FOLDERS I can SAFELY remove.

Thanks

bently
 
Shenan said:
Please hang up and try your format again.

(In other words - you did not FORMAT your old stuff off before you
installed. Boot from CD, follow through and this time - when it asks where
you want to install, DELTE the partition, create a new partition, format and
install.)
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Thanks Bartek, DL, Rick, Shenan,

I do appreciate your replies.

I had the HD originally formatted as 2 drives, with NTFS on C and FAT32
on D.

I have a printout of Clean Install and followed it when I reinstalled.

I told it to Format C with NTFS and it showed it was "FORMATTING" .

I have formatted and installed XP on over a dozen machines since XP came
out and this is the first time something like this happened.

However, installing OVER the original sure sounds like the logical
explanation for what happened. Also, I don't remember DELETING the C
partiton, I think I just told it to FORMAT???

It is not that hard to do, so I will REFORMAT C again and reinstall
XP. I have everything I need on C already saved to D drive, so it
won't take too long to reformat and reinstall.

I will follow the instructions on
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html.

Again, thanks to all.

bently
 
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