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| | Deleting User Accounts that should not exist Hi. I did a clean install of Vista Home Premium over XP home. I saved all the old account details on an external hard drive just in case. I formatted the XP drive, installed Vista OK and began setting up the user accounts from scratch. Imagine my surprise when I wanted to create new user accounts, but with the old user names, to be told that I could not use characters such as "$%^?" etc in the user names (which I was not). AFter some digging around, when I got to parental controls I found that the old account names were listed there even though I had not yet re-created them! I cannot find reference to them anywhere else on the C:\ drive (where XP used to be and now Vista lives) nor in the registry. So, how come these accounts are listed in parental controls when I haven't made the accounts yet? How can I "delete" them so that I can start again? But spookily, how on earth did they get there? -- Thanks - Ted |
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