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Can't delete a user profile
Name: Alex Date: December 17, 2003 at 05:30:33 Pacific OS: Win2000 CPU/Ram: Pentium4/256
Comment:
Hi,
i have the problem that i deleted a user in windows 2000 but the folder under c:\documents and settings ist still there and when i try to delete it i get a message like: {557A.........} cannot be deleted. Access denied. The file is probably open. (Sorry i have the german version of windows2000 so i had to translate it)
I'm logged in as Admin and i'm not trying to delete the admin account.
Name: Glen Date: December 17, 2003 at 07:34:00 Pacific
Reply:
If you haven't done so already, reboot that machine. I've had this happen to me and a reboot usually takes care of it.
Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: thinhare Date: December 19, 2003 at 01:49:45 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried changing the owner of directories to Administrator???
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Response Number 3
Name: nishant_2002 Date: December 20, 2003 at 12:04:26 Pacific
Reply:
Hey people,
u cant delete a profile like that. Log in as an administrator (not as the user u want to delete). Now right click my computer and open the properties (system properties). Now go to the User Profiles tab and select the user whose profile u want to delete. Now click on delete and click yes on confirmation. Thats it!
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