XP Home user account

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Hi,

I need to delete a user account in XP Home. Does anyone know what will be deleted if I do this?

Thanks,
Mark

 

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Hi Mark,

It will delete everything that user has created; profile, my doc's etc. Any particular reason? Might be better off disabling it.

Simon

 

There are two user accounts on this computer both with administrator priviliges. AOL works fine in one profile, but not in the other. I created a new test user account and AOL works fine in that profile. So, it looks as if something may have become corrupted in the account that cannot run AOL. I thought I would delete that account and create another for the user.

 

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Back-up any of the users docs, e-mails etc (no encryption with XP home), and nuke!

Simon

 

Hi Simon,

I suppose if I back up c:\documents and settings\user profile\*.* nothing will be missed, except emails, but that doesn't matter, as she uses AOL.

Thanks,
Mark

 

Hi,

A lot of that won't be required. In fact, you may well carry the problem over.

I would just back up the "my doc's", desktop items (not shortcuts), and IE/Firefox favourites.

Simon

 

Ok, thanks..