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| Guest | User account appears twice, cannot delete it My user acount appears twice, same name, on the log in page. Vista says the password is wrong. In the user acount manage, it only appears once. Where can I delete this "phatom account" in the registry? |
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| Administrator | Re: User account appears twice, cannot delete it This just means that you entered a incorrect password when setting up the automatic logon. This tutorial will show you how to fix the problem. See the NOTE under step 8. Logon Automatically Shawn |
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| Guest | Re: User account appears twice, cannot delete it I too am having this problems, but with two different accounts, thus creating two "sets" of accounts. I don't have any passwords set up for either of the acconts, and so clicking on either 'link' to account #1 does the same thing. Like Francis, they only appear once while managing the user profiles. |
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| Administrator | Re: User account appears twice, cannot delete it I too am having this problems, but with two different accounts, thus creating two "sets" of accounts. I don't have any passwords set up for either of the acconts, and so clicking on either 'link' to account #1 does the same thing. Like Francis, they only appear once while managing the user profiles. Did you ever setup a automatic logon at one time for these accounts? Even if you do not have a password for these account now or ever, this problem will pop-up if a password was entered incorrectly during the automatic logon setup. Especially if there was no password for the account. If this is not the case, then do you remember if you did, install, or change anything before this happened? Shawn |
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| Guest | Re: User account appears twice, cannot delete it Francis Many people are having this same problem. The problem has been identified as a conflict between the OmniPass fingerprint reader software and Vista. If you have a fingerprint reader with the OmniPass software installed, here is the latest information posted by another user who fixed the problem. <quote> I contacted OmniPass and you do not have to uninstall the OmniPass Software. I downloaded this file, www.softexinc.com/download/UninstMSPwdProv.exe - ran it re-booted and I only had the 2 ADMIN Accounts I wanted. this seems to be a problem with OmniPass Version 5.00.18 and Vista update, It has been addressed and fixed in Version 5.00.75 which will fix the issue. If you don't the next time you do a Windows Update with Vista you may get the same doubled user accounts again. </quote> You can download the fix from the above link and double click the downloaded file to run the file. You also need to contact OmniPass support or your PC maker to inquire about getting the latest version of the OmniPass software. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Francis4344" <Francis4344@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3883C59B-6A02-46C5-8F75-6B28BE7F41A4@xxxxxx Quote: > My user acount appears twice, same name, on the log in page. Vista says > the > password is wrong. In the user acount manage, it only appears once. Where > can > I delete this "phatom account" in the registry? |
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