tjackPremium
join:2003-10-13
Buffalo, NY
1 edit | [XP Home] User Accounts I was checking user accounts on my computer and find that I have six of them.
1) Administrator
2) Administrator.D(a six digit number follows)
3) All Users
4) Default User
5) Owner
6) 'my first name'
My question is are all these necessary? Why are there two administrator accounts?
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ShootistPremium
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1 edit | You were looking in C:\Documents & Settings?? Not at the user accounts in the control panel.
Posting the make and model along with all the hardware specs (CPU/Speed, HDD size, RAM and such) will help.
Do you need all those account?? Probably not. Should you just delete them from C:\Docs & Setting, NO.
I suspect the Administrator.Dxxxxxx account is there so the manufactures help desk can logon to the PC for some reason.
The Administrator, All Users, and Default User accounts are on every computer that has XP installed on it, although the Administrator account normally doesn't show up until you log on to it for the first time. With XP Home you have to do that by booting into safe mode. It is not accessible from the Welcome screen or the W2k type logon screen (Ctrl+Alt+Del twice).
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davePremium,MVM
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waffle about directories You're looking at 'directories', not 'accounts'. There's a difference.
Typically, the directory is created the first time the user logs on to the machine. So when user 'dave' logs on, C:\Documents and Settings\dave gets created.
If, later, user dave from domain X (written X\dave) logs on, then directory 'dave' is already taken. So the system will create 'dave.something-or-other'. The actual name of the directory does not matter to the system - it doesn't even need to contain the username, it's merely traditional to do so. Thereafter, X\dave will get directory dave.somethingorother on tjis machine.
Note that X\dave is not even an account on the local machine - it's a domain account (which only works if the local machine is a member of domain X or a domain that trusts X).
Suppose, alternatively, that the local account 'dave' gets deleted but no-one deletes the directory 'dave'. Later, a new local account 'dave' gets created - this is completely unrelated to the previous one. Once again, directory 'dave' is take, so 'dave.somethingelse' is used instead. |
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davePremium,MVM
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Re: [XP Home] User Accounts OK, now more info:
AllUsers and DefaultUser are special folders. AllUsers has settings that apply to, yes, all users. DefaultUser has settings that are used to initialize a new profile, when the directory is created.
The 'Owner' directory corresponds to the 'Owner' username which I think is either a standard XP Home thing, or something put there by your computer vendor.
The extra Adminstrator directory is curious. It may be some artifact of the maufacturing process. I'd try and figure out which of the two were actually used by the current Administrator account (but only out of curiosity).
I might consider deleting the 'other' admin directory once I knew which one it was, but you'd better be very sure you know what you're doing. Why do you want to do that, though? It's presumably not using enough disk space to matter.
You shouldn't delete anything else. |
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joewhoPremium
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Dundee, IL Reviews:
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When I format, I uncheck fast user switching and the welcome screen. I then log on AS administrator, then I go in and delete all the other single user identities.
My docs. and settings (hidden included) shows, administrator, all users, default users,local service and network service. Default, local and network are hidden.
Of course, i'm the only one using this computer and it is xp pro.
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tjackPremium
join:2003-10-13
Buffalo, NY | reply to dave
Thanks for the replies.
Dave,
Actually I don't need to delete anything. I am more curius as to why there are two administrator directories. The administrator only one has three files and was last modified more then a year ago. The administrator directory, with the numbers that follow, seems to be the main one with ten files and a current modification date.
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