Vista - Unknown Account On Vista Welcome Screen - Can't Delete!!?

I have an account on my vista home basic welcome screen which is
labelled 'other user', this account is not listed in user accounts in
control panel. Anyone got any ideas how to get rid of it?

It is not possible to log into the account in question as it asks for
username & password.

There is also no sub folder in c:\users for 'other user'.

Well, that's pretty strange. I'm trying to envision how that might have
happened. It's almost as though a suggestion for creating an "other user" in
a dialog of some type resulted in creation of a user with that name.

You said that it asks for user name and password when you try to log on to
this account. What I think you really mean is that you click on the "Other
User" entry on the welcome screen, and it asks you for a password. Forlorn
hope, here -- have you tried leaving the password blank and proceeding with
the logon?

If the account exists, it really should show up in the User Accounts dialog
of the Control Panel.

The fact that there is no "Other User" folder under C:\Users only means that
no one has yet logged on to the Other User account. (In other words, the
folder for each user only gets created the first time the user logs on.)

Did you install this operating system, or did your computer come with the
operating system installed in this manner?

Just for grins, have you tried (logged in as administrator) entering
"control userpasswords2" in the Start | Run dialog? (Leave out the quote
marks.) If that dialog comes up, do you see Other User listed in it?

"trevaaaaaaa@xxxxxx" wrote:

Hi Trevaaaaa,

Sometimes a security program may create a hidden Guest account like this. You might take a look there.

Shawn

Hi,

No it definitly asks for a username & password, if I leave both blank
I get an error, I tried entering administrator as the username I then
get an error saying that account has been disabled.

It definitly doesn't show up in user accounts.

It doesn't show up in control userpasswords2.

This has only happened recently, the only thing I can think off is
that I have a beta copy of Windows Steadystate, don't really want to
uninstall it.

There must be a way to remove from welcome screen.




On 17 Dec, 19:20, jimmuh <jim...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Windows Steady State? I didn't know there was such a thing for Vista. Beta,
huh? If I were you, I'd at least examine the possibility that this phenomenon
is being caused by the beta software.

I'm curious. What benefit does that software have for Vista? Windows XP was
in dire need of such protection, but I would think that Vista was a little
better able to take care of itself, given proper assignment of user account
types.

"trevaaaaaaa@xxxxxx" wrote:

I think I will have to remove it and see what happens.

It is quite a good piece of software, lets you customize most aspects
of a users account, vista does handle accounts better than xp, but
doesn't give as many tweaks as steady state.

I installed as I was looking for a vista equivalent to the xp shared
computer toolkit.

As I said I will try to remove and see if that works and if it does I
will inform the ms steady state beta team.

Thanks for your suggestions by the way.



On Dec 20, 6:20 pm, jimmuh <jim...@xxxxxx> wrote:

That's very interesting. I hope you'll post back to this thread to let us
know what happens. I, for one, am very interested. Might give that software a
look. Could come in handy for preparing some kiosk machines at some point.

"trevaaaaaaa@xxxxxx" wrote:

I uninstalled Steady State and the 'phantom' account vanished from the
welcome screen, will pass this on to the SS group.

Another thing I have noticed is that on the welcome screen I have no
shutdown icon, only a blue ease of access icon.

Any ideas?


On 20 Dec, 22:20, jimmuh <jim...@xxxxxx> wrote: