2 Administrator Profiles

[Guest]

I installed WIN XP and everything seem to be going great until I rebooted
Then a second adminstrator profile emerged. I did not do anything I can
recall but reboot after an install of some systems software, I believe. The
2nd adminstrator profile was an old, old desktop of mine before WIN XP was
even installed and I though I lost it. Is there any way to delete one of the
administrator profiles. I feel that having 2 administrator profiles is
slowing, even locking my system up.

Can somebody me?

Running P4, with 20g HD

 

[lvee]

If it's just a user account w/admin rights, remove it from User Accounts in
control panel.

 

[Guest]

It will not let me delete it or change it to a limited account, those areas
are grayed out. Is there somewhere else I can go?

 

[Guest]

If it's just a user account w/admin rights, remove it from User Accounts in
control panel.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

I installed WIN XP and everything seem to be going great until I rebooted
Then a second adminstrator profile emerged. I did not do anything I can
recall but reboot after an install of some systems software, I believe.
The
2nd adminstrator profile was an old, old desktop of mine before WIN XP was
even installed and I though I lost it. Is there any way to delete one of
the
administrator profiles. I feel that having 2 administrator profiles is
slowing, even locking my system up.

Can somebody me?

Running P4, with 20g HD

Assuming you are using XP Home, boot up in safe mode, log on to
"Administrator" and try to delete the account from there.
Regards Mike.

 

[Guest]

No I am using XP Pro, is it different?

Assuming you are using XP Home, boot up in safe mode, log on to
"Administrator" and try to delete the account from there.
Regards Mike.

 

[NewScience]

First:

1. Check to ensure that the old, old, profile exists (C:\Documents and
Settings\[OLD PROFILE NAME])
2. If so, you should be able to delete it.

If you cannot, AND you are logged in as an adminstrator account, try:

1. Tweakui
2. Logon branch
3. Check/Uncheck old profile name

Also

1. Run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\lusrmgr.msc
2. Open Users
3. Look for the old profile name in right panel
4. Double-click on name
5. Make sure 'Account is locked out' and 'Account is disabled' are not
checked
6. If so, uncheck and then go into Control Panel | User Accounts and delete
user