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    My C:\Users folder has a ton of folders in it for some reason and I'm not sure why? can I just delete these? how can I get rid of them? folders: Default, defaultuser100000, defaultuser100000.Mech01, defaultuser100000.Mech01.000, defaultuser100000.Mech01.001, defaultuser100000.Mech01.002, defaultuser100001, defaultuser100001.Mech01, defaultuser100001.Mech01.000, defaultuser100001.Mech01.001, Nicho, and PublicI feel like I should only have Default, Nicho, and public. what are the other folders? all the other folders seem to be zero bytes except defaultuser100000.Mech01.002 and defaultuser100001

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