Trouble deleting Old Profiel Folders from Documents and settings.

[Guest]

In the documents and settings there are a few old User profiles that are
taking up space. when i try to delete them this message comes up:
cannot delete NTUSER.DAT is being used by another person or program.

If anyone can help me figure out away to delete these old profile folders,
please do.

Thanks so much

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

LBS,

You delete the user account via Control Panel, User Accounts applet.

 

[Guest]

Thats what i did in the first place, but those files remained.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Click Start/Run and type SYMDM.CPL
Click Advanced tab
Under "User profiles", click Settings button
Delete the corresponding entry in the resulting dialog.

 

[Guest]

when i type that in it says it cannot find that. Any other ideas? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I figured out where u wanted me to go. And it says unknown account for the
ones i wanna delete. And it won't give me the option of deleting them, the
button stays unclickable. Any other ideas? Thanks.

 

[Kelly]

He meant: sysdm.cpl

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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Are you trying that procedure from built-in Administrator account? Apart
from that, check the folder permissions.

 

[Guest]

I am having the exact same problem. Has anyone come up with any other leads
or ideas to fix this?