Deleting Users - Win XP Pro SP2

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I am having a problem with deleting a user account (Pippa). Go through
Control Panel, Users Accounts and the PC hangs, not responding. I have run
chkdsk and all is OK. I have tried 'net user pippa /d' from the command
prompt, but the user is not found. If I boot in safe mode, Pippa does not
show on the Welcome screen. If I boot normally, Pippa shows on the Welcome
screen.

I am confused. Any ideas?
 
LaurenceCook said:
I am having a problem with deleting a user account (Pippa). Go through
Control Panel, Users Accounts and the PC hangs, not responding. I have run
chkdsk and all is OK. I have tried 'net user pippa /d' from the command
prompt, but the user is not found. If I boot in safe mode, Pippa does not
show on the Welcome screen. If I boot normally, Pippa shows on the Welcome
screen.

I am confused. Any ideas?
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The immediate question is: If Pippa shows on the Welcome screen,
can you log on as Pippa?

Furthermore, what do you see when you run the command "net user"?
 
Yes, I can log in as Pippa, but it is very slow and clunky and I can't do
much. Net user does not show Pippa as a user.
 
This sounds all very strange. Let's have some actual
data. Log in as Pipa, start a Command Prompt and
type these commands VERBATIM:

set > c:\test.txt
net user >> c:\test.txt
net user %UserName% >> c:\test.txt
dir "%AllUsersProfile%\.." >> c:\test.txt (two dots after the slash!)
dir "%UserProfile%" >> c:\test.txt
notepad c:\test.txt

Now copy & paste the contents of this file into your
reply.
 
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