Where did this User Account from? Can I delete it?

> For two of my administrative accounts, XP has somehow managed to create
> parallel login acounts with the same user id (Administrator and Admin) but
> with a suffix of .Client800) attached.
>
> In other words, two of my users accounts (with administrative rights) are
> ID=Administrator and ID=Admin.
>
> Somewhere along the way, XP created two more accounts paralleling these
> two
> accounts. One is Administrator.Client800 and the other is Admin.800.
>
> If I look in the Local Settings folders for these account, the only
> programs
> apparently installed are IE, Windows Media Player, Firefox, etc. Non of
> the
> programs installed in my regular Administrator and Admin accounts are
> installed. A Desktop.ini file exists in one of the two accounts. And so
> on.
> There are no programs installed in the Start Menu folder either.
>
> These user accounts do not exist in Control Panel/User Accounts either.
>
> Can I simply delete the folders for these .Client800 accounts in
> C:\Documents and Settings? For example, one of the accounts is
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.CLIENT800\
>
> Client800 is the machine name.
>
> John Wirt
> What are these accounts?

> JWirt wrote:

>> For two of my administrative accounts, XP has somehow managed to
>> create parallel login acounts with the same user id (Administrator
>> and Admin) but with a suffix of .Client800) attached.
>>
>> In other words, two of my user accounts (with administrative
>> rights) are ID=Administrator and ID=Admin.
>>
>> Somewhere along the way, XP created two more accounts paralleling
>> these two accounts. One is Administrator.Client800 and the other
>> is Admin.800.
>>
>> If I look in the Local Settings folders for these account, the only
>> programs apparently installed are IE, Windows Media Player,
>> Firefox, etc. Non of the programs installed in my regular
>> Administrator and Admin accounts are installed. A Desktop.ini file
>> exists in one of the two accounts. And so on. There are no programs
>> installed in the Start Menu folder either.
>>
>> These user accounts do not exist in Control Panel/User Accounts
>> either.
>>
>> Can I simply delete the folders for these .Client800 accounts in
>> C:\Documents and Settings? For example, one of the accounts is
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.CLIENT800\
>>
>> Client800 is the machine name.
>>
>> John Wirt
>> What are these accounts?

>
> Member of a domain?
> Ever?

>
> Done any repair installs?

> Supposed clean installs?
>

> What are the paths for each of your profiles in the registry?
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
> (Look for the profile path...)
>

> "JWirt" <JWirt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B19CD23A-A974-4D67-9511-5C7BAE8A7E3A@microsoft.com...

>> For two of my administrative accounts, XP has somehow managed to create
>> parallel login acounts with the same user id (Administrator and Admin) but
>> with a suffix of .Client800) attached.
>>
>> In other words, two of my users accounts (with administrative rights) are
>> ID=Administrator and ID=Admin.
>>
>> Somewhere along the way, XP created two more accounts paralleling these
>> two
>> accounts. One is Administrator.Client800 and the other is Admin.800.
>>
>> If I look in the Local Settings folders for these account, the only
>> programs
>> apparently installed are IE, Windows Media Player, Firefox, etc. Non of
>> the
>> programs installed in my regular Administrator and Admin accounts are
>> installed. A Desktop.ini file exists in one of the two accounts. And so
>> on.
>> There are no programs installed in the Start Menu folder either.
>>
>> These user accounts do not exist in Control Panel/User Accounts either.
>>
>> Can I simply delete the folders for these .Client800 accounts in
>> C:\Documents and Settings? For example, one of the accounts is
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.CLIENT800\
>>
>> Client800 is the machine name.
>>
>> John Wirt
>> What are these accounts?

> No, I would not delete the accounts .CLIENT800. These are more than likely
> your current folders.
> If you delete an account but do not delete its folders, and if you then
> attempt to create an account with the same username, XP will append the
> machine name to this name. The login name and the account name do not
> necessarily need to be identical.
> What you see in Control Panel/User Accounts are the aliases for the current
> SID values and it need not be identical to the folder names.
>
> If this seems confusing, you are right. It is. But, I had the same
> situation as you now have.
>
> The surplus folders which you may wish to delete are those without the
> machine name appended. I would not delete anything until I became certain
> that there is nothing in these folders that I might need now or in the
> future.
>
> Jim
>
>

> Jim wrote:

>> "JWirt" <JWirt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B19CD23A-A974-4D67-9511-5C7BAE8A7E3A@microsoft.com...

>>> For two of my administrative accounts, XP has somehow managed to create
>>> parallel login acounts with the same user id (Administrator and Admin)
>>> but
>>> with a suffix of .Client800) attached.
>>>
>>> In other words, two of my users accounts (with administrative rights)
>>> are
>>> ID=Administrator and ID=Admin.
>>>
>>> Somewhere along the way, XP created two more accounts paralleling these
>>> two
>>> accounts. One is Administrator.Client800 and the other is Admin.800.
>>>
>>> If I look in the Local Settings folders for these account, the only
>>> programs
>>> apparently installed are IE, Windows Media Player, Firefox, etc. Non of
>>> the
>>> programs installed in my regular Administrator and Admin accounts are
>>> installed. A Desktop.ini file exists in one of the two accounts. And so
>>> on.
>>> There are no programs installed in the Start Menu folder either.
>>>
>>> These user accounts do not exist in Control Panel/User Accounts either.
>>>
>>> Can I simply delete the folders for these .Client800 accounts in
>>> C:\Documents and Settings? For example, one of the accounts is
>>>
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.CLIENT800\
>>>
>>> Client800 is the machine name.
>>>
>>> John Wirt
>>> What are these accounts?

>> No, I would not delete the accounts .CLIENT800. These are more than
>> likely your current folders.
>> If you delete an account but do not delete its folders, and if you then
>> attempt to create an account with the same username, XP will append the
>> machine name to this name. The login name and the account name do not
>> necessarily need to be identical.
>> What you see in Control Panel/User Accounts are the aliases for the
>> current SID values and it need not be identical to the folder names.
>>
>> If this seems confusing, you are right. It is. But, I had the same
>> situation as you now have.
>>
>> The surplus folders which you may wish to delete are those without the
>> machine name appended. I would not delete anything until I became
>> certain that there is nothing in these folders that I might need now or
>> in the future.
>>
>> Jim

>
> As I recall, quite awhile ago, I did fool around with my accounts
> trying to get file sharing to work, and in the process deleted and
> recreated some of my accounts. Admin is the user name for the
> administrator account on my other machine.
>
> If I shouldn't delete Administrator.Client800 can I delete the
> Administrator account?
>
> However, if I look in the Local Settings for Administrator.800, it looks
> like it is not being used. The Local Settings folder of Administrator
> contains folders for several current programs I have installed that are
> not in the Local Settings folder of Administrator.800.
>
> Thank you.
>
> John Wirt
>
>