Ok. I have a few items if you can share them with me:

1) I have four folders in my C:\Documents and Settings folder: a)
Administrator, b) All Users, c) [my full name- which is the account that I
previously set to automatically come up and use, having full Administration
rights], and d) Default User. Now, in Control Panel\User Profiles, the only
account that I set up was "b)"; there appears only two icons also, one for my
"b)" account, and one for "Guest User" account. Based on this:

a) Can I go ahead and delete all the folders in my C:\Documents and Settings
folder, except for the one I'm using, i.e. folder "b)"?

b) I tried to make an account for the "a)" folder in the C:\Documents and
Settings folder in Control Panel\User Profles; however, when I try to name
the account "Administrator", I get a message that this account already
exists; I know that the folder exists in the C:\Documents and Settings
folder, but not in Control Panel\User Profiles. Why is this happening, and
how to I fix this?

See inline.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Ben wrote:

All Users and the Default User are created by Windows. Do not remove
them or move them. Do not alter them in any way until you know exactly
what you are doing.

In news:6FE66BEB-4D90-4C07-A412-CF8DB271F772@microsoft.com,
Ben discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Thank you so much. Let me see if I understand this: I have WXP Pro; based on
what you said, I cannot go to CONTROL PANEL\USER PROFILES and create User
Accounts for these said folder (i.e. Administrator, All Users and the Default
User.). ...And not to touch them because they all have purposes. You also
guessed right; what you are saying is that if I want users to log into my PC
using CTRL+ALT+DEL, I have to go into CONTROL PANEL\USERS PROFILES, click on
the CHANGE THE WAY USERS LOG ON AND OFF link, and then uncheck the USE THE
WELCOME SCREEN option (note that the Windows Help files do not state this,
but rather refers to an ADVANCED tab that I do not have existant in my USER
PROFILES window. ...And as for the article reference, I just thought that
there may have been a reknown...

Thank you so much for this great and helpful answer, Napatsfan; OK. First,
You stated that in emergencies, I can log into my Administrators account.
Yet I don't have an account for it set up in my CONTROL PANEL\USER PROFILE,
or anywhere else to set a passwork to it; ...so at the Welcome Screen, when I
press Ctrl + Alt + Del, one of the accounts that will appear is ADMINSTRATOR,
and I can just go ahead and log into it without a password; then how do I set
a password for it?

Everything else, you are right on the mark; thank you! Ben J.

"Nepatsfan" wrote:

Answered inline.

In news:1CF4A234-69B5-4D17-92DB-17EB0390AE6B@microsoft.com,
Ben discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

"I cannot go to CONTROL PANEL\USER PROFILES and create User Accounts for
these said folder (i.e. Administrator, All Users and the Default User.)"

Correct. They are not user accounts. They are system accounts.

"And not to touch them because they all have purposes."

Correct. Once you learn.../really/ learn...about how these accounts
operate, you may find a reason to work with them. (Always make a backup
copy of the Default User before altering it.)

"I just thought that there may have been a reknown, comprehensive, and
detailed article..."

I wish. I wouldn't have had to learn the hard way. :-(

In general, a well-crafted web search is worth more than gold.

Glad I could help.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Ben wrote:

Nothing to be sorry about; thank you! Great response! Ben J.

"Nepatsfan" wrote:

You're welcome.

Nepatsfan

In news:37F014E6-A08E-4620-9901-5CA27C559995@microsoft.com,
Ben discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Let me try my luck here, if I can figure out how to start.... Probably I
should start
a new query (and I may) but this seems to be the only post I saw that comes
even close to my own problem (actually, 2).

Specs: Win XP Pro SP2; Intel Celeron 2.66 GHz; 224 MB RAM

(1) Way back when I had a problem - think a blown MBR (same again as now).
Eventually fixed it and then did a back up and a system state back up.

When she blew again, I got it going again and afterwards did a confusing
restore
of the system state (Windows help on most issues confuses the hell out of me).
To tell the truth, by now I forget what all I did.

In any case, in the end I wound up with a ton of accounts, one of which (w/
a very long name w/nrs, preceded by Admin or similar), took over. None of
these accts are pw protected.

I would love to delete some of these messy accounts and restore the one
(call it
"MAIN") I had used previously - because it has a ton of desktop shortcuts
I've set up over a long time and don't want to spend months re-doing.

Any way to do that?