Computer and Software Support


What is Documents and Settings

 

Documents and Settings holds the files for each user that has been created in windows. The administrator account is the default account created when windows is created. It is recommended not to use that account for every day use but to use it for management of the system.

The folders are listed in a tree. If the tree is not open you will see a + sign next to Documents and Settings as you see in this example

   

To access the folder, do the following

  1. Open Windows Explorer
  2. Double-Click Drive C
    1. Windows XP
   
    1. Windows Vista and Windows 7
   
  1. You will see the following
    You will see the following
       
    1. Windows XP and older
      1. Documents and Settings
   
    1. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10
      1. Users
   
  1. Double-click
    1. Windows XP
      1. Documents and settings and you will see
   
    1. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10
      1. Users and you will see
   
  1. Double-click the user (in this example it will be Jesse)
    1. Windows XP and older
   
    1. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10
   

 

You will not see the files and folders that are listed in that directory while it is in that state. To see the files and folders, you have to expand the directory by clicking on the + and that will open the directory and you will see something that looks similar to this (most of the user names will be different on each computer but the layout will be similar)

 

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