"users" folder in winxp



Hi,
something very strange happened. to me.
when i switched to vista i noticed that vista uses a new folder structure,
for user data, i.e.
it has a folder called "users" in the root directory. this seems to be a nod
towards linux, i guess.

winxp had the classic windows "Documents and settings" folder.
now i reinstalled winxp, this time SP3 and Windows behaves very strangely
and seems to
both use a "Documents and settings" folder AND a "users" folder and often i
find the same files
in _both_ folders.

can anybody shed some light on this?
am i right that the "users" folder only arrived with vista? or did MS
changed xp with SP3 and in that
version xp also uses a "users" folder?


kind regards,
chris



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