User profiles

[whiteyes]

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4
____________________


Trying to figure out some things.

In System >User Profiles
There is "Account Unknown"
38193KB
Local

What is this?

I cannot see it in
C:\Documents and Settings

Also in
C:\Documents and Settings
What is Default User?

 

[OR YAM SENG [MSFT]]

1. When you delete an existing user account, the 'User Profile' will become
'unknown'. The user settings/folders, should still be in ..\Documents and
Settings folder though.
(If you were to delete this profile from the User Profile, the
correspondending folders will be deleted).

2. The Default Users are settings which newly created account will get their
default settings from. These settings are also used by some system services.

FYI. There is also a 'All Users' folder in which you could configure
settings (e.g. program menu, desktop shortcuts, favorites...) which will be
available to all users who logon to the system.

Rgds.

YS
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[twistie]

could be the logged on user does not have permissions to
see the names

 

[whiteyes]

RE
.....could be the logged on user does not have permissions to
see the names

Still puzzled

I am logged on with full Administrator
rights and see no profile named unknown
in Documents and Settings.

But in System >User Profiles
there is "Account Unknown"
---------------------------------------------
|
| could be the logged on user does not have permissions to
| see the names
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >1. When you delete an existing user account, the 'User
| Profile' will become
| >'unknown'. The user settings/folders, should still be
| in ..\Documents and
| >Settings folder though.
| >(If you were to delete this profile from the User
| Profile, the
| >correspondending folders will be deleted).
| >
| >2. The Default Users are settings which newly created
| account will get their
| >default settings from. These settings are also used by
| some system services.
| >
| >FYI. There is also a 'All Users' folder in which you
| could configure
| >settings (e.g. program menu, desktop shortcuts,
| favorites...) which will be
| >available to all users who logon to the system.
| >
| >Rgds.
| >
| >YS
| >^-^
| >Please do not send mail directly to this alias.This alias
| is for newsgroup
| >purposes only.
| >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
| confers no rights.
| >
| >| >>
| >> Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
| >> Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4
| >> ____________________
| >>
| >>
| >> Trying to figure out some things.
| >>
| >> In System >User Profiles
| >> There is "Account Unknown"
| >> 38193KB
| >> Local
| >>
| >> What is this?
| >>
| >> I cannot see it in
| >> C:\Documents and Settings
| >>
| >> Also in
| >> C:\Documents and Settings
| >> What is Default User?
| >>
| >> --
| >> Any help or advice appreciated.
| >> whiteyes
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
| >
| >.
| >

 

[Mark V]

whiteyes wrote in

RE
....could be the logged on user does not have permissions to
see the names

Still puzzled

I am logged on with full Administrator
rights and see no profile named unknown
in Documents and Settings.

It would be named for a previous user account (that is now gone)
"Account unknown" means there is no cross reference of an SID with a
named account. IOW orphaned.