Re: *hidden* new user account/error (control userpasswords2)
From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:02:45 -0700
Log on as Administrator and look in C:\Documents and Settings\Whatever Name
and see if there are any files/folders for Whatever Name.
Maybe you didn't create an account, just logged on as a Guest.
-- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news:D30556BD-6D44-4227-AA73-F24B6E26584D@microsoft.com, KnS <KnS@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked: > Thanks Wesley, I will ensure not to use it in future for the wrong > reasons then. > > Could you help me though > > How can I delete a user created in this way? > As the user still has access on the system, and as it is a guest - it > cannot delete itself, and logged in as an administrator you cannot > see this account. > > Any help with removing the user, or simply making it accessable to > delete or modify the group it is in would be useful. > > "Wesley Vogel" wrote: > >> Did you read any of the warnings? >> >> [[The userpasswords2 applet should not be used on WINDOWS XP Home >> Edition as a tool to edit or modify users. It is reserved for >> WINDOWS XP Professional Edition. The reason for this is that >> userpasswords2 allows the user to access to the 'Power Users' group >> which doesn't exist on WINDOWS XP Home Edition.]] >> >> [[This computer is running Windows XP Home Edition. This snapin may >> not be used with that version of Windows. To manage user accounts >> for this computer, use the User Accounts tool in the Control Panel]] >> >> The Power Users group doesn't exist on WINDOWS XP Home Edition. >> >> control userpasswords is what should be used with XP Home, *not* >> control userpasswords2! >> >> The only thing you should use control userpasswords2 for with XP >> Home is to change the way you logon. Nothing else! >> >> [[SYMPTOMS >> When running 'control userpasswords2' with Windows XP Home Edition, >> the following error may be displayed: >> >> - The user could not be added because the following error has >> occurred, The group name could not be found: When creating a new >> user and make it member of the 'Power Users' group. >> >> - The group membership for Computer name\User could not be updated : >> When updating an existing user, adding him to the 'Power Users >> group'. >> >> CAUSE >> The userpasswords2 applet should not be used on WINDOWS XP Home >> Edition as a tool to edit or modify users. It is reserved for >> WINDOWS XP Professional Edition. The reason for this is that >> userpasswords2 allows the user to access to the 'Power Users' group >> which doesn't exist on WINDOWS XP Home Edition. >> >> RESOLUTION >> Do not use 'control userpasswords2', to update and create user >> accounts on WINDOWS XP Home Edition. Instead, use the 'User Account' >> option from 'control panel' to manage User Accounts and groups. This >> tool will not show the 'Power Users' group on WINDOWS XP Home >> Edition. ]] >> >> KB817365 >> Creation of user in the 'Power Users' group with 'Control >> Userpasswords2' http://www.it-faq.pl/mskb/817/365.HTM >> >> Apparently MS pulled KB817365 from MSKB. >> >> -- >> Hope this helps. Let us know. >> >> Wes >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User >> >> In news:B6B9F2F9-9959-472D-99AF-FC1BEA9D8AB6@microsoft.com, >> KnS <KnS@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked: >>> Hi, >>> I have done this a few times using XP Home. >>> >>> If you use Start > Run > "control userpasswrds2" to add a new user, >>> it prompts you to enter a username & password. You then click next, >>> which prompts you what type of user you would like it to be. I have >>> previously selected Power User & User. >>> >>> An error message occurs saying that the user group specified could >>> not be found. >>> >>> If you then select a different user group, it says that the user >>> (that you are in the process of creating) already has access to this >>> system - or something like that. >>> >>> I then click cancel. and logoff windows. >>> >>> I then go to login as the user I have just created, and I can login. >>> Under control panel >users, the user is listed as a guest - HMM XP >>> Home failing to find the other user Groups assigned it to the Guest >>> group? >>> >>> I logoff, and logon as an administrator, go to control panel - and >>> the user i created does not exist there. Run "control >>> userpasswords2" and the user is not listed there also. >>> >>> You can still login as the user, but it is not listed in any user >>> lists in XP home. >>> >>> How can I delete this use account? >>> >>> I have done this a few times on previous installs of XP on my PC. >>> >>> Anyone have any suggestions on how to remove this user from the >>> computer? >>> >>> Would be interesting to hear how this happens, and why, and also how >>> to sort it out!? >>> >>> Thanks
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