Unwanted User

quincon · External Since: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 21

I have recently had to reinstall XP & SP2 and have encountered a few problems.
I have changed the name of the user by adding a surname during the setup but
now in the Documents and Settings folder the old user name appears as well
but without all of the necessary folders. I have tried deleting this user but
it keeps re-appearing.
In the Documents and Settings folder I have "All Users", "Default User" "The
Unwanted User" as per above and "My Name User".
Can I reduce this to "My Name User" and a "Guest User" and if so how?

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Michael Q

peter · External Since: Mar 29, 2006 Posts: 340

You can not to the best of my limited knowledge remove Default or All users.
but you should be able to remove Unwanted by means of control panel/users

peter
"Michael Q" <Quincon.TakeThisOut@tnet.com.au(nilspam)> wrote in message
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>I have recently had to reinstall XP & SP2 and have encountered a few
>problems.
> I have changed the name of the user by adding a surname during the setup
> but
> now in the Documents and Settings folder the old user name appears as well
> but without all of the necessary folders. I have tried deleting this user
> but
> it keeps re-appearing.
> In the Documents and Settings folder I have "All Users", "Default User"
> "The
> Unwanted User" as per above and "My Name User".
> Can I reduce this to "My Name User" and a "Guest User" and if so how?
>
> --
> Michael Q

quincon · External Since: Jan 10, 2005 Posts: 21

Peter thank you for your reply. I understand from what you have said that I
cannot delete the "All Users" and "Default User" despite the fact that I have
not previously had a user named "Default User". Or at least it didn't show.
I still have an unwanted user with the former name of the computer owner and
each time I delete using control panel it reappears again. Any suggestions on
how to delete this user permanently?
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Michael Q

"peter" wrote:

> You can not to the best of my limited knowledge remove Default or All users.
> but you should be able to remove Unwanted by means of control panel/users
>
> peter
> "Michael Q" <Quincon.DeleteThis@tnet.com.au(nilspam)> wrote in message
> news:5A010C2F-2D29-43FD-896A-64BDE8AA9E89@microsoft.com...
> >I have recently had to reinstall XP & SP2 and have encountered a few
> >problems.
> > I have changed the name of the user by adding a surname during the setup
> > but
> > now in the Documents and Settings folder the old user name appears as well
> > but without all of the necessary folders. I have tried deleting this user
> > but
> > it keeps re-appearing.
> > In the Documents and Settings folder I have "All Users", "Default User"
> > "The
> > Unwanted User" as per above and "My Name User".
> > Can I reduce this to "My Name User" and a "Guest User" and if so how?
> >
> > --
> > Michael Q
>
>