How to delete a login

[Man T]

I got my current PC from my collegue (he cloned his harddisk), how do I
delete his login?
I cannot find from the Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I got my current PC from my collegue (he cloned his harddisk), how do I
delete his login?
I cannot find from the Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups.

You should treat this PC as highly suspect and reformat its hard disk since
you do not know what viruses might be on it. If you prefer to run the risk
of using it as it is then you can do this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd{OK}
- Type these commands:
net user {Enter}
net user "NameOfColleague" /del {Enter}
rd /s /q "c:\Documents and Settings\NameOfColleague" {Enter}

Use these commands with caution - there is no backout facility for them!

 

[Ken Blake]

I got my current PC from my collegue (he cloned his harddisk), how do I
delete his login?
I cannot find from the Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups.

If I acquired a used computer, the first thing I would do with it would be
to reinstall the operating system cleanly. You have no idea how the computer
has been maintained, what has been installed incorrectly, what is missing,
what viruses and spyware there may be, etc. I wouldn't want to live with
somebody else's mistakes and problems, possibility of kiddie porn, etc., and
I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do either.

 

[Man T]

I agree with both - better off starting from scratch.

You can have enough problems with a clean install -
Never mind not knowing what stuff has been
- Installed/Uninstalled
- Installed then deleted
- invalid registry entries
-User settings etc

But in the meantime goto control panel user accounts -
make sure you have admin rights for yourself
Then Select the account and delete it
this also removes the majority of the users files etc.

I also agree all of you.
However, he is the developer has working here for couple of years and he did
not want to give me days (or he has no documentation of the
tools/components) to install and reinstall all the tools so he just cloned
his harddisk so that I started to work when I came to this company from day
1.
I have not come across this situation, from the past in my previous
employers I have a clean PC(not necessary new), either the OS was installed
by the network support or by myself, then I install all development tools,
components, utilities. The guys just gave me hard time, what he did wrong on
his PC were passed to me. He left his footprint to my system, his settings,
his files, ...etc.

I have hard times in this company from March, ie 8 months now and found he
was not helpful, he is so defensive and whenever he assigned tasks to me
there must be something missing or hidden and the result was I make some
error or bugs in the modifications.