data within user account

[Guest DaveG]

Running windows xp professional. We have 4 user accounts and one of the four

is named Administrator. Each account has a Destop folder. My question is

this. Is the data within the 4 different desktop folders duplicated on the

hard drive, using more space on the hard drive?

[Guest sgopus]

RE: data within user account

 

All users desktops share common files, some users will also show common

icons, but the size of hd usage is minimal for just a shortcut, if your

concerned about space taken up on the HD, then get a larger HD. they are

cheap these days.

 

"DaveG" wrote:

> Running windows xp professional. We have 4 user accounts and one of the four

> is named Administrator. Each account has a Destop folder. My question is

> this. Is the data within the 4 different desktop folders duplicated on the

> hard drive, using more space on the hard drive?

[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

Re: data within user account

 

DaveG <DaveG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Running windows xp professional. We have 4 user accounts and one of the four

>is named Administrator. Each account has a Destop folder. My question is

>this. Is the data within the 4 different desktop folders duplicated on the

>hard drive, using more space on the hard drive?

 

Some is. Some isn't. Some might be.

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: data within user account

 

"DaveG" <DaveG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:8BE550F1-7829-4042-A5CE-EE35C37F0CD7@microsoft.com...

> Running windows xp professional. We have 4 user accounts and one of the

> four

> is named Administrator. Each account has a Destop folder. My question is

> this. Is the data within the 4 different desktop folders duplicated on the

> hard drive, using more space on the hard drive?

 

All of the desktop folders exist on the hard disk. If you look in each

folder, you'll see the contents.

 

Each will have data that is unique to the account, all will share some data.

 

HTH

-pk