That's where XP stores per-user data for your and any other user accounts 
on the system.  Deleting it could cause various bad things to happen, such 
as loss of your desktop and Start menu.

David Gillett


On 5 May 2008 at 14:47, Robert Citkowitz wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 5 May 2008 14:47:24 -0400
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Subject:        	[PCBUILD] New Documents and Settings folder appeared
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> Looking in my Computer folder, I discovered a new Documents and Settings 
> folder, which contains empty folders for (myname) and All Users.
> 
> Can't figure how that happened. Any ideas? Virus/Malware? Any reason not to 
> delete the folders?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
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