How many Administrators do I need?

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Tony Williams

After a system crash I had to reinstall W2K. I had three attempts before I
got it to go. Consequently I now appear to have three Administrators listed
in Documents and Settings in Explorer. They are the origional Administrator,
Administrator.TW and Administrator.TW.000 in that order. I also have All
Users and All Users.Winnt and Default User and Default User.Winnt.
Which of these can I safely delete? Anyone help?
TIA
Tony Williams
 
You can probably delete the Default User, All Users, Administrator.TW,
Administrator accounts.
When Windows comes back up and user profiles already exist for a user but it
is unsure whether that is the same user, it creates a new user directory
with .WINNT as the extension. if the <username>.WINNT already exists, it
will start adding numbers to the end (ie <username>.WINNT.000)
So, the most recent profiles are the ones with the lastest numbers, or if
they don't have numbers, the ones with .WINNT on the end.

bil
 
Thanks bil

Microsoft NNTP said:
You can probably delete the Default User, All Users, Administrator.TW,
Administrator accounts.
When Windows comes back up and user profiles already exist for a user but it
is unsure whether that is the same user, it creates a new user directory
with .WINNT as the extension. if the <username>.WINNT already exists, it
will start adding numbers to the end (ie <username>.WINNT.000)
So, the most recent profiles are the ones with the lastest numbers, or if
they don't have numbers, the ones with .WINNT on the end.

bil
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Thanks bil
Tony
Microsoft NNTP said:
You can probably delete the Default User, All Users, Administrator.TW,
Administrator accounts.
When Windows comes back up and user profiles already exist for a user but it
is unsure whether that is the same user, it creates a new user directory
with .WINNT as the extension. if the <username>.WINNT already exists, it
will start adding numbers to the end (ie <username>.WINNT.000)
So, the most recent profiles are the ones with the lastest numbers, or if
they don't have numbers, the ones with .WINNT on the end.

bil
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