User Profiles

[Guest]

Hi
is it safe to delete my older profile named Administrator from System
Properties>
Advanced tab>under User Profiles>Settings? as i already have a new
administrator
account. it all happened when my Pc crashed & i had to create a new
administrator account.also i booted it twice so it created two additional
folders-Administrator.username & Administrator . Also it gives me an option
to delete the old Administrator from above path.
Please help
Thanks.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Log onto all accounts listed in the utility that starts when you go to start/run and type
CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2,

then in each of those accounts, go to start/run and type
%USERPROFILE%
to determine the folder name of each account.

You can delete any folders in "Documents and Settings" not found in this way.

 

[Guest]

Hi
i tried the thing which u said & the bad news is the computer shows
two 'Administrators' under user groups. One of these is the old
Administrator & the second one is the current administrator which is Username.
Also Documents & Settings folder shows both the administrators folders.
From the path I have given it is clear that the old Administrator is no longer
active & hence has got the Delete button highlighted, which is not the case
for the present administrator.
My doubt is whether i can safely delete all the folders related to the old
Administrator or will that cause the PC to crash;since a couple of reboots
created some folders in the name of old Admin.
Hope its not much trouble for you.
Thanks

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The system needs only the current active admin account to operate normally. You could copy all thew old settings from the old
account before removal, if you wish.

811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151