The User That Wouldn't Die

I've been pulling my hair out over this one for a while now and I'm hoping
that someone out there can give me a clue, if not a solution.

At the company I work for we have many laptops and desktops with Windows XP
Pro installed on them. The machines have been locked down with a special
Administrators account on them. This special user is part of our domain.
Some time ago the password for this admin account was compromised so on our
next quarterly update CD that we send to the end users out in the field we
want to make it so that the users are no longer able to login as that user.

I quickly discovered that you can't change the password of a domain user
when the laptop is not connected to the domain server (most of these laptops
won't be connecting to the domain server for a good long time). So my next
idea was to create a new local admin user with the same name but a new
password and then somehow disable or delete the old domain user. I'm able
to create the new user with no problems.

In VBScript I tried both disabling the user and dropping the user from the
Administrators group but neither of those methods worked. Since I wasn't
having any luck getting rid of the user in VBScript I decided to see what
happens just using the regular Windows tools. Using the control panel I
deleted the user. I deleted everything for the user from the Documents and
Settings folder. I deleted the user's profile. The laptop that I'm testing
with is not connected to anything but the user is still able to login and
still has administrator permissions. What do I have to do to get rid of
this user?

Thanks in advance,

Scott


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