Vista - Rogue user name and account

ne of the user names on my computer is not an alphabetic name but only a
right-bracket : i.e., "]". It is not listed in the various user accounts. I
do not know how it was created and would like to get rid of it. It inteferes
with many operations and usually gives an error such as "can not find
C:/user/?"; of course the system is looking for a user name such as "Bill",
"Public", or "default" and finds "]" instead.

Can anyone help? It would be appreciated.

Hello,

try the following: Right-click the Command prompt link and select "Run as
administrator".
Type
net user HereTheUserName /DELETE
and hit Enter, where HereTheUserName is the exact name of this weird user
account.

Hope this will work.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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"P. Di Stolfo" wrote:

Thanks for the info but unfortunately it did not work! It returned the
systax of the net user command. Nothing seems to acknowledge the presence of
] as a user name. I guess I will have to save all my data and downloads and
reformat the hard drive and re-install the operating system. I don't have an
original Vista operating system disl so I will have to depend on a recovery
drive setup by Dell.

Thanks for you try to aid me.

Bill

When you look in Windows Explorer at C:\Users do you see a folder with that
" ] " name?
Is there any other folder under 'Users' there that has a different name than
the user accounts that you can see in Control Panel/User Accounts?

If it's not there, press WINKEY+R and type regedit.exe and press OK.

In the registry editor, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Expand the ProfileList key and click on each one of the sub-keys. Do you see
a profile named with the right bracket or any other user profile that
doesn't belong there?



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