"user accounts" vs "user profiles"

[Richard Fangnail]

In Windows XP, when people say user account or user profile, is there
a difference?

In the control panel, there is a program called User Accounts - it
seems to mean the same thing as user profiles - which are ways of two
or more users on the same machine to store their favorites, desktop
background, etc.

 

[Kelly]

User Account - is for changing settings for the User Profile.
Which is totally different from sharing files between users.

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[Richard Fangnail]

User Account - is for changing settings for the User Profile.
Which is totally different from sharing files between users.

The pages I've seen tend to use the two terms interchangeably.