Oddities with Username for Default User Profile

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I created a non-privileged username called "DefaultSetup" and
configured it as I want all new users to look using:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974
and copied it over to "Default User".

I created a new username "Bill" and found a couple of things I
didn't understand.

1. In c:\Documents and Settings\Bill there is an empty folder
named "pss". Looking in "Default User" and "DefaultSetup"
there is also a "pss" folder. I tried deleting Bill's pss
folder, but after logging off & on, it reappears.

What is this "pss" folder?

2. When I'm logged on as an administrator, and look at the
c:\Documents and Settings\Bill, there's a
"DefaultSetup's Documents". I opened up a command window
and I only see "My Documents". So Windows appears to
be lying to me.

Is there a way to either make windows display "My Documents"
or make windows show "Bill's Documents"?

TIA
 
rhonda said:
I created a non-privileged username called "DefaultSetup" and
configured it as I want all new users to look using:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974
and copied it over to "Default User".

I created a new username "Bill" and found a couple of things I
didn't understand.

1. In c:\Documents and Settings\Bill there is an empty folder
named "pss". Looking in "Default User" and "DefaultSetup"
there is also a "pss" folder. I tried deleting Bill's pss
folder, but after logging off & on, it reappears.

What is this "pss" folder?

2. When I'm logged on as an administrator, and look at the
c:\Documents and Settings\Bill, there's a
"DefaultSetup's Documents". I opened up a command window
and I only see "My Documents". So Windows appears to
be lying to me.

Is there a way to either make windows display "My Documents"
or make windows show "Bill's Documents"?
Click to expand...

Show hidden and system files and look in the default user's folder first.

Find the "desktop.ini" file in the "My _____" folders (douments, music,
videos, etc) and erase them (Default User and "Bill". Or you can edit the
desktop.ini files and make them say "Bill". ;-)

Don't know what the PSS directory is.
 
Shenan said:
Show hidden and system files and look in the default user's folder first.

Find the "desktop.ini" file in the "My _____" folders (douments, music,
videos, etc) and erase them (Default User and "Bill". Or you can edit the
desktop.ini files and make them say "Bill". ;-)
Click to expand...

Thanks for the solution Shenan! I erased all text and it fixed it!
 
rhonda said:
I created a non-privileged username called "DefaultSetup" and
configured it as I want all new users to look using:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974
and copied it over to "Default User".


2. When I'm logged on as an administrator, and look at the
c:\Documents and Settings\Bill, there's a
"DefaultSetup's Documents". I opened up a command window
and I only see "My Documents". So Windows appears to
be lying to me.

Is there a way to either make windows display "My Documents"
or make windows show "Bill's Documents"?
Click to expand...

This is normal Windows behaviour. All the document folders and systems
generated subfolders are named "<account>'s Documents" by default. When you
login in an account name, and then look at the account holders folder,
Windows substitutes 'My' for the "<account>'s" name bit so that (say)
"Bill's Documents" gets displayed as "My Documents" when logged in as Bill.
If you delete the folder and then recreate it, this functionality is lost -
the folder will stay named as whatever you name it.
 
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