Jerry,
Is there a Users account on your machine?
Start | Run | Type: control userpasswords | Click OK
To delete a user profile
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...le_delete.mspx
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:H_Uuf.3130$Hl6.2214@newsread3.news.pas.earthl ink.net,
Newsgroups <jerrysgerber@earthlink.net> hunted and pecked:
> That is probably what happened. But when I try to move all the contents of
> the USER folder into JERRY folder, I cannot delete the USER folder as
> Windows tells me it is a system folder. I think the dealer I bought the
> computer from must have created this folder, can I delete it and
> re-organize my folders to reflect who is actually using the computer?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jerry
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:eg3IWsVEGHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Users
>> The Users folder is not a default XP folder. It must have been created
>> by you or whoever you purchased your machine from. That probably means
>> that their is a Users account on your machine also.
>>
>> Default Local Disk Folders
>>
>> Folder Name: Documents and Settings
>> Contents: Account information for each user who is granted access on the
>> computer. Each user account is represented by a subfolder assigned the
>> user name. Folders under each user account folder include My Documents,
>> Desktop, and Start Menu.
>>
>> These include:
>>
>> Documents and Settings\Administrator
>> Documents and Settings\All Users
>> Documents and Settings\Default User
>> Documents and Settings\LocalService
>> Documents and Settings\NetworkService
>> Documents and Settings\You
>>
>> Some of the above are Hidden folders.
>>
>> Administrator is for the Administrator account.
>>
>> All Users is used for many things. Your Desktop and Start Menu, for
>> example, display what is in All Users *and* what is in your Desktop and
>> Start Menu folders.
>>
>> Default User is used when creating new accounts.
>>
>> I am not really sure what LocalService & NetworkService are for, but...
>>
>> LocalService is the NT Authority\Local Service user account, the Windows
>> XP
>> System account.
>>
>> Obviously, NetworkService has something to do with networks, the
>> NetworkService account.
>>
>> The LocalService and NetworkService accounts perform things like
>> synchronize
>> the time, etc.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:v2Uuf.857$WY5.72@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink .net,
>> Newsgroups <jerrysgerber@earthlink.net> hunted and pecked:
>>> Hey Rick,
>>>
>>> I checked and my icons of shortcuts are neither in C:\Documents and
>>> Settings\Jerry\Start menu\Programs nor are they in C:\Documents and
>>> Settings\AllUsers\Start menu\Programs.
>>>
>>> Instead they are in C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Programs. But they
>>> work now correctly. Am I missing something??
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>> news:%23qheYVSEGHA.984@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On the users folders, the first (USERS) is a template created by the pc
>>>> maker for all new user accounts. The latter is your actual user profile
>>>> (click start/run, type %userprofile% and click ok, it should open to
>>>> your
>>>> folder). To have icons appear, they need to be in either:
>>>>
>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry\Start menu\Programs
>>>> or
>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\AllUsers\Start menu\Programs
>>>>
>>>> The latter houses shortcuts and settings that apply (can you guess?) to
>>>> ALL USER accounts.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best of Luck,
>>>>
>>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>>>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>>>
>>>> "Newsgroups" <jerrysgerber@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:25Iuf.3011$Hl6.337@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
>>>>> I am encountering a problem when I go to the START button and click on
>>>>> it to a program folder, where I right click on that folder to open up
>>>>> a grouping of shortcuts to programs. When I place a new shortcut
>>>>> icon in that window and close it, the shortcut doesn't show up in the
>>>>> start menu
>>>>> programs as I expect, as it did in Windows 98SE.
>>>>>
>>>>> A related problem seems to be my not being clear on the difference
>>>>> between the DOCUMENTS & SETTINGS/USER folder and the DOCUMENTS &
>>>>> SETTINGS/JERRY (my name) folder. The first problem seems connected
>>>>> in some way to the first.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help as to how Windows handles these mundane tasks would be much
>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jerry