Deleting user profile in XP

[luminos]

I developed a bad profile in XP (the message that came up on 'loading
personal settings' was something like 'c:\documents and settings\name\local
settings\temp\IE5...etc' has too long a filename.

Basically it states 'too bad' and loads a default, temporary profile.


I have tried every possibility as Administrator. However the Microsoft
Knowledge Base directive to 'turn off services used by other accounts'
appears impossible, since I get no results.

How do I delete the corrupt profile when no Delete button appears? How do
you safely 'turn off services used by other accounts'?

This never happened under Win2000!

 

[Steve Nielsen]

By "every possibility" what exaclty have you tried? Disk error checking?
Disk cleanup?

Based on the scant information you give it appears to me that it is the
path length that's the problem, not necessarily the profile needing to
be deleted. That path appears to be temporary internet files. Have you
tried deleting cookies and offline files from within IE?

Steve

 

[luminos]

Yes, one of the problems is path length. I deleted the temp files. Then I
got a 'cannot continue, a process needed is already in service' message. It
then goes
to the temporary profile. That is when I looked up the problem, and found
the directive to 'turn off services used by other accounts' which is
nebulous at best. No other
accounts are using the system on boot!

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Not surpised the KB canned advice is useless.

Did you check the disk for errors? May have some munged security
desriptors that chkdsk could fix. I'd do it from recovery console -
chkdsk /p.

Steve