RE: Why aren't Administrator's Documents & Settings folders displa

Windows XP Home and Professional both has an inbuilt administrator account
with the name of "Administrator". You can notice when thing at the time of
installation that "Set a Password for Administrator account". This is the
password which will be used while logging into the Administrator account. By
default, the Administrator account only appear if after installation there is
no Welcome screen and you are being directly logged into the Administrator
account or if you run the tweak given in my previous post or in Safe Mode.

As you said that after the Repair the Administrator account suddenly
appeared on the screen. Maybe there will not a specific answer that how it
happend automatically. Also as said by others if the administrator account
exist you will still not be able to see Administrator folder under Documents
and Setting till you login atleast once.

And at last, You're ALL-WAYS Welcome.

"Alice" wrote:

Thank you, Stanley and Raj. I see that both your replies concern the issue of
being both the administrator and user of a computer.

Stanley, actually I only log on as Administrator in Safe Mode. The only
thing I can think of that I needed recently as Administrator was to schedule
a task, which could only be done (a) as an Administrator and (b) in Safe
Mode. I didn't think to check if the Documents and Settings folders were
present, though.

Raj, as you note, during installation Setup asks you to name 1 to 5 users
and sets up accounts for them. I did that, but I did the same in previous
installations. I set up Alice as a user account separate from the
Administrator account. The system opened a set of folders for Alice under
Documents and Settings (My Documents, Local Settings, SendTo, Start Menu,
etc.), and I proceeded to use that account for daily tasks.

But when I installed XP previously, and also created a user account Alice
separate from an Administrator's account, I could still see a set of folders
for the Administrator under Documents and Settings. This time that set of
folders wasn't there and I wondered why.

But lo and behold - today I had a still-unexplained system error which led
me to run chkdsk from the recovery console. It reported that it corrected
some problems, and when I booted up again, suddenly the Administrator's
folders were right at the top of the list where they used to be! I do not
actually use the Administrator's folders since I save all my data under the
user name Alice, but at least the mystery is solved even though I have no
idea why it happened in the first place.

On a side note, I think it is fairly new that XP has a default setting
during the installation to make a separate user account for the
Administrator, and IMO it's a pretty good idea. Always good to have an extra
layer of caution between humans and potentially expensive mistakes,
especially when those humans might be very tired after a long day in front of
the computer. If you have to log off and log back on to carry out an
Administrator function, you reduce the chance of making a careless mistake.

Thanks so much for guiding me and trying to help.




I just finished a clean install of XP Pro on a new hard drive. I am both the
administrator and sole user of this computer.

In the past, I always used to see four sets of folders under Documents &
Settings: Administrator, All Users, Default User, and my own username. This
time, however, I don't see the Administrator's set of folders. I didn't do
anything different during installation.

I modified the folder options to view all hidden folders and settings, but
still can't see any Administrator's Documents and Settings folder group.
Where is it hiding?

Many thanks.


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