User Accounts - query

I'm tempted barefoot kid. Just past hassles with user accounts has caused so much heartache.

However Ivanhoe understand why ms write os's which leave the files in place after you delete a user

I'm having some work done on the house today which I'm helping with so I don't have time right now. I'll be free in about 3 or 4 hours I think

Until then maybee someone might know an answer which is simple and dosnt need a reinstall

Unless I can understand why those errors occurred and know for sure just deleting the user folders is all that needs doing I will feel uneasy. I'm sure there will be other hidden files that won't have gone either!

Speak later
Matt

the padlock just means the folder isnt being shared, have you tried deleting the folder in safe mode?

EDIT:Build 7077 - Padlocked Folder

Hi guys,

I dont need to go into safe mode to delete it...i can just delete it as a normal admin.

my account Icarus II (see snips above) is an admin account. I just now deleted the folder and subfolders in c:/users/Matthew with no problems at all.

my query is more about:
a) why when I removed 'Matthew' in user management and said to delete the files did it leave them?
b) when i went into even viewer there were two errors (see above snips) - one saying it failed to delete folders in matthew as they werent empty (surely this is the purpose of saying 'yes' to delete files when you remove the user!)
c) the other error message was the same as b) but for the administrator account (which im guessing is the high lvl administrator account that I havent activated). Not only havent I activated it but I didnt try to delete it either becasue its not in user management (becasue its not activated).

Matt

Failure to delete the actual folders when deleting a User Account happens all the time. It may even be a built-in failsafe.

If you decided to delete a quasi-Admin account (why?) to replace it with a standard User Account for owner then you did in fact delete an Admin account, which is likely why it errored and kept your files - as a fail safe for someone who might not know what they're doing or defense against trojan attack.

If you decided to delete a quasi-Admin account (why?) to replace it with a standard User Account for owner then you did in fact delete an Admin account, which is likely why it errored and kept your files

Hi Greg, My understanding of w7 install is that during install you are asked to create an account which is infact an admin account. I mistakenly thought I was creating a standard user account rather than an admin and gave it a name I intended for my standard user account

Before anything was deleted, in c:/users there was :
Matthew - admin account
Administrator - admin account
Guest - guest account

However only 'Matthew' was showing in user management as 'guest' had not actually been activated and I believe 'administrator' is the built in admin account that i also haven't activated

I then created Icarus II - admin account and used this account to delete 'Matthew'. So i have never attempted to delete the account named 'administrator' as it had not been activated and was not an option to delete in user account control panel.

I may have misunderstood your above quote, sovim sorry if I have. I wasn't recklessly deleting accounts - I did so after seeking guidance here first