Re: Documents & Settings Can of Worms: Too Many Folders

"Clueless in Seattle" <spamless.in.seattle.redux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've got eight different sub folders under Documents and Settings:

Administrator
Administrator.MICRON
All Users
All Users.WINNT
Anonymous
anonymous.MICRON
Default.User
Default User.WINNT

What do you call the concept that these sub folders refer to?
"Profiles"? "Users"? "I.D.s"? For now I'll call them "Users" for
lack of the proper term.

Trouble is, important data and program files have somehow gotten
scattered around amongst all of these different "Users."

I am the only user of this computer and so would like to have all of
my data and program files together in a single "User."

How may I sort out this mess?

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"

P.S. As for the question of how my Documents and Settings folder got
so scrambled up in the first place, I only have part of the answer.
One cause was that I first installed Windows 2000 as an upgrade to
Windows 98. But that installation became so unstable that I tried a
clean install of Windows 2000.


Was Windows reinstalled?
Create a new file in some program (Notepad is easy) and save it in My
Documents. Now use Windows Explorer to see which user has the new file.
That is the user currently being used. Drag any desired documents from the
other user to the current user.
As for missing programs, you will have to reinstall them.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com



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