favorites folder

[andrew]

In the winxp 'documents and settings folder I have Four
folders....a 'All users', a 'All users.windows', and
a 'mora' and 'mora,hal9000'. the later two being Our
personalized folder/administrator along with our
computer's nmae (hal9000). why are there Four folders?
they ALL have the same info in them each. and if I make
a change in the 'favorites' folder of one of them, I
figure it should make the change in them all, but nothing
happens, I have to change it in all four.....:(

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

H iAndrew,

Did you reinstall WindowsXP over itself (rather than a non-destructive
repair installation)? That would account for the odd profiles.

Part of the design of true user profiles is to have separate settings and
data files, this is why a link copied to one favorites folder does not copy
to all of them. To have a link show for all users, place it in the
Doc&Settings\AllUsers\favorites folder.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"andrew" > wrote in message
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> In the winxp 'documents and settings folder I have Four
> folders....a 'All users', a 'All users.windows', and
> a 'mora' and 'mora,hal9000'. the later two being Our
> personalized folder/administrator along with our
> computer's nmae (hal9000). why are there Four folders?
> they ALL have the same info in them each. and if I make
> a change in the 'favorites' folder of one of them, I
> figure it should make the change in them all, but nothing
> happens, I have to change it in all four.....:(