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Old 05-27-2008, 08:32 AM
Shenan Stanley
 
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Re: user accounts
nospam" <"news.ftr(nospam) wrote:
> I intend to clean my pc (win XP SP3) and find several general user
> accounts which all house local settings : Administrator, All Users,
> Default User, {my user name}, LocalService, NetworkService, Owner.
> I am the admin and have a single account , {my user name}.
>
> Do I need a user account if I am the user ?
>
> Can I, should I try to integrate all the user accounts, i.e. All
> Users, Default User, {my user name}, Owner, into a common one ?
>
> Does this accelerate the PC ?
> Does it save space ?


Leave things the way they are - Windows XP is a multi-User OS. The number
of actual physical beings using the PC is irrelevant to that fact.

After that (the answer to the first question) - in order...

No.

No - it'd break it.

Not really - and even if it could be done - if the space you would 'save'
actually made a difference - you already had issues you needed to address.

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