Documents & Settings/User Accounts

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From: Tsotsi (anyone_at_all_at_anywhere_at_all.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:30:37 -0400

XP Pro on a new Dell.
I created a user account for 5x people. They were all 'computer
administrator' accounts.
Then I changed my mind and decided to only have one account that everyone
would use.
I deleted all but one of the 'computer administrator' accounts and renamed
it.
In Control Panel>User Accounts - I now have 2 entries - one for the
abovementioned 'computer administrator' account and one for the Guest
Account which is switched off.

In My Computer>LocalDisk(C:)>Documents and Setttings> there are folders for
each of the 5 previously deleted Users.

And there is an 'All Users' folder, and an 'Administrator' folder.

And there is another folder for 'Veronica.Computer_1' - This is partially
named after one of the original 'computer administrator' accounts, and
partially after the name I gave the machine in the original setup wizard.

There is no listing under Documents & Settings for the newly re-named
'computer administrator' account.

I right-clicked each of the original deleted accounts and deleted them from
the Documents & Settings folder. However, I cannot delete the
'Veronica.Computer_1' account. I get an error message that it's a Windows
system folder and can't be deleted.

If I go to Control Panel>Computer Management> Local Users and Groups>
Users - I have 6 listings - 2 support (Dell & MS), Help Assistant,
Administrator, Guest and Veronica (* The Name is Veronica but the Full Name
is the name I gave the newly renamed 'computer administrator' account
mentioned above).It seems this Veronica could be renamed or deleted with a
right click menu. But that wouldn't change the troublesome entry in
Documents & Settings ? *&%^$#

Can anyone help me straighten out this mess - Hopefully there is a
relatively simple solution. I'm getting my knickers in a knot?

With thanks

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