During my recent testing of scanning workstations for open shared folders in our network, I noticed that some workstations in our bank are showing the C:\Users folder, but without any files inside. My colleague mentioned that this might be a default setting in Microsoft Windows and we are aware that some users intentionally share specific folders like Folder 1 and Folder 2.

Is there any way we can determine why some workstations are sharing the Users folder in C:\Users?

Any recommendations on how to remove C:\Users from all workstations would be highly appreciated. By the way, we successfully ran a script in BigFix to remove C:\Users from selected computers. However, we’d like to understand why it’s being shared before rolling it out to all workstations.