Delete Administrator Account

[luke]

I'm running out of space on my HDD partition where XP Pro is installed.
There's only 1 account "luke(administrator)" visible in control panel > user
accounts but in c:\Documents & Settings there is an Administrator folder
which is 2GB in size. It's never being used so how exactly do I delete this
user account?

 

[Guest]

You don't want to dlete Admin Account!!!
MIne is only 18 mb.

How big is your Doc and Setting folder?

Open the Admin folder and see what is in there.>

You must be saving some of yuor stuff in there.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Never ever consider to remove the standard default "Administrator" account.
This is very important to XP that it stays!!!!

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I'm running out of space on my HDD partition where XP Pro is installed.
There's only 1 account "luke(administrator)" visible in control panel > user
accounts but in c:\Documents & Settings there is an Administrator folder
which is 2GB in size. It's never being used so how exactly do I delete this
user account?

Don't do this. Never delete the Admin account or files. Instead, go into
Internet Explorer, Tools then Internet Options, and click on Settings in the
Temporary Internet Files section. Set the size of the temp folder down to,
say, 25 meg from the several hundred (or more!) it's probably at now.

Also, get and run ccleaner.exe (www.ccleaner.com) which will help greatly
with the housekeeping.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

So my questions is slightly different then - if I've reinstalled windows
without formatting the HDD. How do I remove Admin account from previous
installation? Or get info off the Old Admin Account? (then I could format and
reinstall).

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I'm running out of space on my HDD partition where XP Pro is installed.
There's only 1 account "luke(administrator)" visible in control panel > user
accounts but in c:\Documents & Settings there is an Administrator folder
which is 2GB in size. It's never being used so how exactly do I delete this
user account?

The built-in Administrator account cannot be deleted.

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Bruce Chambers

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