Vista - Help with Admin Accounts

Friend of mine helped me with my Vista install, everything went well but now my user account is Bob rather than what I wanted. I changed the profile name but the user account (c:/Bob/<desired name>) is still listed as Bob.

I did a bunch of research online and it appears the easiest thing to do is just create a new Admin Account and then remove the old one. Just need to copy any specific data I want to keep from that other user. Simple enough... mmmm not true!

When I deleted the undesired account, it no longer displays in the manage accounts section but when I right click on the start (windows flag icon in lower left corner of desktop), select explore all users, expand the users folder (c:/users), I have several user folders listed and the ones I thought I had deleted. When I try to delete one of the undesired folders it starts to delete the files (sending them to the recycle bin, but then stops and states "The action can't be completed because the folder is open in another program, close the folder and try again.

This is extremely frustrating.. how can it be this difficult. I want to delete the old account along with all of its data. Now I have 3 accounts that I want deleted all with about 23 MB worth of data just sitting there - empty folders and files.

Please help. Thanks.

Hello Zagith, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Double check with this tutorial to see if this is how you deleted the old user account. When you delete the old C:\Users\(user name), be sure to do it from within the new account.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Yep, that is actually the tutorial I used. I created a new admin account and logged in with it. Then I deleted the undesired account, which was successfull; however the user files still exist as per my previous post.

c:/users/<undesired account>

If I try to delete this I receive the error message I previously posted.

-Zag

Delete in Safe mode

Zag,

As CoolNewYorker posted above, you should be able to boot into Safe Mode to delete the old C:\Users\(use name) folder of the deleted user account.