Can I delete these folders in windows XP?

[leglez]

Ok I am low on space on my HDD and don't have enough money to buy a new hdd right now so I am trying to get rid of stuff I dont need

I am the only person that uses this computer so I only need 1 account "Rickey"

At C:\Documents and Settings there are the following folders:

Administrator
Administrator.YOUR-27E1513D96
All Users
Default User
Guest
Rickey

Can I get rid of all of those except Rickey?

Or can I get rid of any of them?

 

[n0cmonkey]

How much space are they really taking up?

 

[leglez]

550MBs

 

[n0cmonkey]

You probably need at least: All Users, rickey, and one of the admin accounts (the admin account is kind of important 😉). I'd spend a bit of time finding out what's in those directories that is taking up that much space.

 

[SunnyD]

Guest should be rather empty
All users is "required" - it's a template directory
Default user - this is a system folder, do not delete it - it's also a template directory
2 Admin accounts eh, the Admin.WHATEVER can go.
The other admin account... well, you can probably run disk cleanup on it and free up memory.

Odds are, that 550MB is in temp files under the "Ricky" profile. Run disk cleanup from that account.

 

[Nothinman]

2 Admin accounts eh, the Admin.WHATEVER can go.

You can't be so sure of which one to delete, the .WHATEVER is the domain or computer name and could be the active profile for the Administrator account.

 

[leglez]

Ok thanks I cleared %temp% and got 500 MBs

 

[Evander]

here's a nice utility that shows you on a graph how your hard drive is distributed. look for any large blocks and see if you can delete them:
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/