any way to delete multiple administrator accounts?

[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

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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!