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The system needs only the current active admin account to operate normally. You could copy all thew old settings from the old
account before removal, if you wish.
811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151
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Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for Windows Antispy
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"dumb spidey" <dumbspidey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B6CC646F-2A63-46A0-92E3-997B969CAE27@microsoft.com...
> Hi
> i tried the thing which u said & the bad news is the computer shows
> two 'Administrators' under user groups. One of these is the old
> Administrator & the second one is the current administrator which is Username.
> Also Documents & Settings folder shows both the administrators folders.
> From the path I have given it is clear that the old Administrator is no longer
> active & hence has got the Delete button highlighted, which is not the case
> for the present administrator.
> My doubt is whether i can safely delete all the folders related to the old
> Administrator or will that cause the PC to crash;since a couple of reboots
> created some folders in the name of old Admin.
> Hope its not much trouble for you.
> Thanks
>
>
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> Log onto all accounts listed in the utility that starts when you go to start/run and type
>> CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2,
>>
>> then in each of those accounts, go to start/run and type
>> %USERPROFILE%
>> to determine the folder name of each account.
>>
>> You can delete any folders in "Documents and Settings" not found in this way.
>>
>> --
>> Mark L. Ferguson
>> FAQ for Windows Antispy
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>> "dumb spidey" <dumbspidey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1EF91BBF-8620-4A79-A05C-9BDE4524FE12@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi
>> > is it safe to delete my older profile named Administrator from System
>> > Properties>
>> > Advanced tab>under User Profiles>Settings? as i already have a new
>> > administrator
>> > account. it all happened when my Pc crashed & i had to create a new
>> > administrator account.also i booted it twice so it created two additional
>> > folders-Administrator.username & Administrator . Also it gives me an option
>> > to delete the old Administrator from above path.
>> > Please help
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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