Vista Documents and Settings Folder??

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Does Vista have a Documents and Settings folder - similar to the one in XP?

I am a sole, and only, user of my computer and all the sub folders there
(Administrator, All, Default, and "Jack") have always been a mystery and
a source of irritation.

Is there a chance Vista will have only one folder for/on computers that
have single users?

Thank you
 
If you upgrade from XP there should be a Documents and Settings directory,
but it does not work under Vista. This has been replaced by the Users folder
located on the local drive.
 
Thank you.

I will be installing Vista 'clean'.

Does that 'Users' folder have sub folders (like xp does) if I'm the sole
user?
 
I'm the sole user on a computer with Vista, and have three folders under
Users(formerly known as Documents and Settings in Xp): Default (used by
Windows when it creates a new user account), Me, and Public (for shared
folders).

Dean
 
If you change your folder settings to show hidden and system files and
folders as well as uncheck the "Hide protected operating system files", you
will see these Documents and Settings and other such folders.
 
Vista has hidden junctions, which have the same names as folder names in XP.
In Windows Explorer, these junctions are shown as hidden shortcuts, with
File Folder properties, used, in part, to redirect XP program installations
that rely on the old XP folder names and XP locations. John Barnes referred
to them as "redirectories", which is a good way of putting it. (If you try
to "open" them, you'll get an access denied pop-up).

Dean
 
Rick Rogers spake thusly on 11/11/2006 7:34 PM:
Yes, this is still part of the security scheme and user account structure.
Click to expand...

As far as I'm concerned this is one of the *best* things about Vista.
Microsoft *finally* gets their structure in line with the rest of the
world. And you no longer have to "feel possessive" about your Documents,
Pictures, Videos or Music. The stupid "My" is gone.

All I'd like to know is why these "features" weren't in Windows years
ago. Perhaps the guy in charge of folder trees quit? ;-)

And on a related note, it's also nice that Microsoft figured out that in
fact Pictures, Videos and Music are in no way, shape or form
"documents". And as a result don't belong as subfolders of (My
)Documents. :-)

I'm absolutely baffled at why this is a feature now. It should have been
a "feature" in Windows 98.
 
Not on my machine ???

and thank the lord, if you are a regular cmd.exe user it will save a lot of
typing ;)
 
Thank you - I could not agree more!! I have hated the entire XP file structure through it's
entire lifespan.
 
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