Safe to remove the foreign file under \users?
On my Win 7 Pro system, I created an administrator account on the computer (MyAdmin) in addition to limited accounts that are used on a daily basis. For some reason, my C:\users folder has not only a MyAdmin folder (and files for other users), but a folder with the same name followed by a period and the name of the computer.
My computer is called "Whale" and I have the following files in C:\Users
Default (hidden folder)
LimitedUserOne
LimitedUserTwo
Public
MyAdmin
MyAdmin.Whale
In Control Panel / users, I see only MyAdmin (not MyAdmin.Whale). Similarly, in the computer management / users, there is no list of MyAdmin.Whale
Is it safe to delete C:\Users\MyAdmin.Whale and all of its subfolders? Where it comes from in the first place?
Here you go:
- Log in as MyAdmin.
- Click on the Globe to boot, type the three letters cmd and press ENTER.
- Type the following commands and press ENTER after each:
Set userprofile
(This shows you the folder for the active profile. Which one is?)
dir/a "c:\Users\MyAdmin\ntuser.dat".
dir/a "c:\Users\MyAdmin.Whale\ntuser.dat".
(These commands will tell you when the profile folder last used)
ren 'c:\Users\MyAdmin' MyAdmin.NotInUse
(This command renames the MyAdmin folder to something else. It is an intermediate step and all safe. You can permanently delete the folder in two weeks if all goes well).
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