Re: Safe deletion of old user details ?
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:50:08 -0600
Hopefully he also go the operating install disk as the best solution would
be to do a fresh install of the operating system. Who knows what kind of
shape the current operating system is in including possible trojans,
keyloggers, remote dial home programs, etc. Other than that someone will
need to logon as an administrator account and create a new user account for
the user and add him to the administrators group assuming he wants full
access to the computer's operating system. It would also be a good idea for
him to have a "regular" non administrator user account for browsing the
internet, opening email, etc. as an administrator the user can also remove
old user accounts via lusmgr.msc and profiles associated with those user
accounts by going to system properties/advanced/user profiles.
Steve
"jags" <jags@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5DB5EC3D-62B0-4790-AD1E-13B81F469122@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am trying to help a friend who has just purchased a second hand PC and is
having problems with the old user's critical details and user settings
preventing access to many areas of the machine, I am asking for any help
in
the total SAFE removal of old user info, as I personally have never used
the
OS this machine uses (it is running Windows 2000 Pro) and thus have little
idea of what TO change/delete etc. !
Can someone please tell me how all old user data can be removed from the
PC,
so that my friend can have a 'blank page' to create their OWN persona and
data - without interference from existant data causing these problems.
Many
Thanks !!
.
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