Folders that appear under the Documents and Settings

[Dave D.]

The name of the folders that appear under the Documents
and Settings folder for the various users are duplicating
themselves. Is this an XP "feature"? For example, I set up
4 user accounts - 2 with administrator rights, 2 with
limited access. After logging in to each user accounts, I
now have 8 folders for these 4 accounts rather than 4 as I
would have suspected. 4 of the folders are called by the
regular user account names, which are just people's names
(i.e. - joe). The other 4 are an extension added on after
a dot (.) which is the computer system name I chose to
give this PC (i.e. - COMPUTER1). So, using these example
names, I have a "joe" folder, as well as a "joe.COMPUTER1"
folder, and they both have almost (but not quite) the same
collection of sub-directories and files within them. I
tried to delete one of the ones with the extensions (i.e. -
joe.COMPUTER1) and got a message that said it could not
be deleted because the folder conained Windows system
files. Is this normal? If not, does anyone know how to
correct it? Thank you!

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Dave D. wrote:
> The name of the folders that appear under the Documents
> and Settings folder for the various users are duplicating
> themselves. Is this an XP "feature"? For example, I set up
> 4 user accounts - 2 with administrator rights, 2 with
> limited access. After logging in to each user accounts, I
> now have 8 folders for these 4 accounts rather than 4 as I
> would have suspected. 4 of the folders are called by the
> regular user account names, which are just people's names
> (i.e. - joe). The other 4 are an extension added on after
> a dot (.) which is the computer system name I chose to
> give this PC (i.e. - COMPUTER1). So, using these example
> names, I have a "joe" folder, as well as a "joe.COMPUTER1"
> folder, and they both have almost (but not quite) the same
> collection of sub-directories and files within them. I
> tried to delete one of the ones with the extensions (i.e. -
> joe.COMPUTER1) and got a message that said it could not
> be deleted because the folder conained Windows system
> files. Is this normal? If not, does anyone know how to
> correct it? Thank you!

Something very odd here: - you should have a folder for each User, one for
Administrator, one for default user and one for All Users.