How to delete a user profile

[Marge]

When we setup Windows XP Home, we did not study the book
well enough, and created 2 user profiles, when they are not
needed. Now there is all sorts of confusion when trying to
find documents. Is it in shared documents, A's documents or
M's documents? We would like to have just one place to
check, and forego the second user. How is this done, and
what do we do to save/transfer the documents and data that
needs to be saved?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Marge,

Boot to the user you wish to remove. Move desired files from "My Documents"
to the shard docs or another folder that is not under that user's profile.
Log off and then into the other user (the one you want to keep). Verify that
the files you saved are accessible. From the Control Panel/Users, delete the
unwanted profile.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[GK]

When we setup Windows XP Home, we did not study the book
well enough, and created 2 user profiles, when they are not
needed. Now there is all sorts of confusion when trying to
find documents. Is it in shared documents, A's documents or
M's documents? We would like to have just one place to
check, and forego the second user. How is this done, and
what do we do to save/transfer the documents and data that
needs to be saved?

The documents are located based on whose user profile you were in
when you created them. You'll need to track them down via windows
explorer and copy them over to the user and directory that you want
to preserve, located in C:\documents and settings\whatever user name.
Once you have all your docs and files over there, you can delete the
profile from control panel, user accounts.

To start, it might be best to dump everything (document files) into
one folder from one user to the other, and then hand pick from there
which goes where.

Maybe someone has an easier way, but that's how I see it.