any way to delete multiple administrator accounts?

[Guest Tim.T]

I had to reinstall Windows, and when I'd finished I noticed I had two

profiles: "Documents and Settings\Tim.ComputerName" (note the ".") and

"Documents and Settings\Tim". I went into Safe Mode and checked my user

accounts. There were now TWO administrator accounts. Problem was, I'm the

only user on this pc and there's no-one to delete my account for me. Neither

account can delete the other, can they?

 

In the end I formatted C: drive and started again. I'm back to normal now

with just one admin account, but is there any way of deleting extra or

anomolous adminstrator accounts? I think it happened because I chose to

install XP over the old installation rather than a clean install. It looks

like it just appended the old profile with the

".ComputerName"

 

Cheers

Tim

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: any way to delete multiple administrator accounts?

 

 

"Tim.T" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message

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>I had to reinstall Windows, and when I'd finished I noticed I had two

> profiles: "Documents and Settings\Tim.ComputerName" (note the ".") and

> "Documents and Settings\Tim". I went into Safe Mode and checked my user

> accounts. There were now TWO administrator accounts. Problem was, I'm the

> only user on this pc and there's no-one to delete my account for me.

> Neither

> account can delete the other, can they?

>

> In the end I formatted C: drive and started again. I'm back to normal now

> with just one admin account, but is there any way of deleting extra or

> anomolous adminstrator accounts? I think it happened because I chose to

> install XP over the old installation rather than a clean install. It looks

> like it just appended the old profile with the

> ".ComputerName"

>

> Cheers

> Tim

 

You are dealing with two concepts here:

- User accounts. One way to list all user accounts goes like so:

Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}

Type this: net user{Enter}

This will show you all accounts that exist. To delete a specific

account, you could type this command:

net user TimT /delete

Formatting drive C: and re-installing Windows in order to

delete an account is a little over the top.

- User profiles. Every user that has ever logged on will have

a profile folder in c:\Documents and Settings. This is a collection

of files, folder and preferences. It is NOT an account. If you are

logged on as administrator then you can delete any user profile

folder. Be careful - you might delete important files!