Multiple Admin accounts in XP?

[JasonSix78]

I noticed tonight I had multiple Admin subfolders in my Documents and Settings folder.

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Can someone explain this to me, I've never seen this before.

-Jason

 

[jlbenedict]

have you logged onto a domain with that system ??

 

[JasonSix78]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Please explain, it's been a long night. :clock:

-Jason

 

[gsellis]

The first one is for the local administrator.

The second on is for the AMD 3200 administrator account.

The third on is for the same account, but something changed such as unjoined the domain or rejoined, so it created a new profile. Same user name, but a new SID somewhere in the chain. Hence the addition of .000. If the same user had a new SID and logged on, they would get a new profile store appended with .001. Also, I think you get the same results if you login as the domain user and then from another account use USMT to move an account on that machine or a tape restore.

 

[randomlinh]

or.. he installed xp ontop of itself w/o wiping out the directory.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
or.. he installed xp ontop of itself w/o wiping out the directory.

Maybe, but usually gets administrator.000 too, IIRC.

 

[JasonSix78]

Thanks for the input thus far!
This is a new Rig I just built 2 weeks ago. It has a new HDD so no XP over XP install. I'm still not sure what "joining a domain" means. I was under the impression that a domain is (.com, .net, etc.) I've been using XP for over a year now and I've never seen anything like this, usually just have an "All User" and a "Jason Six" subfolder.

-Jason

 

[Bluestealth]

AMD-64-3200 is probably his computer name, why there is 3 I don't know. You can just delete them if you want, when you relogin in as administrator it should reload it with defaults. In my experience the first is $User_Name, next is $User_Name.$Computer_Name, then for each extra $User_Name.$Computer_Name.***