user accounts

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 ?

Thanks
Frank
Owner only

Shenan
Tue May 27 01:32:49 PDT 2008

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.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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nospam
Tue May 27 03:16:20 PDT 2008

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Thanks :-) , also for the rapidity of your answer.

- Frank