My dad has recently bought my girlfriend's laptop from her as she doesnt require it anyomre. She had a windows user name on it, Laura. My dad must have changed this to his name, and he noticed in explorer that there were documents and settings folders for him, and also still laura which he wanted to remove. I figured to remove them I needed to create a new user so I could delete my dad's one which would delete the laura folders. This worked, but I then renamed the user I created to my dad, and the same thing has happened, it shows there are documents and settings folders for the new name, my dad as well as the old user name I created. You can't manually delete them as windows says they are system files and you can't delete them from the advanced user profiles setting in the system options in control panel as they are both linked to the same profile I assume. Can anyone help? Alos is there anyway you can manually change who windows is registered to? In system options in control panel where it says what spec your pc is, it says it's registered to laura, cna I change that? I can't reinstall windows XP as it came on the laptop and there is no disc.

Which version of XP are u using? When u created another acct, did u give admin rights to it? you might wanna try this. add a restore point. rename dad back to laura. in cmd, what is the path? make sure its x:\documents and settings\laura. go to explorer>c:>documents and settings and delete dad's previous folder. empty recycle bin. add dad as a new user. give admin rights to dad and user rights to laura. delete laura in the user profiles and check if there's still laura folder in documents and settings (if yes delete). reboot. dad should have a new clean profile. for the owner name. nothing beats fresh installation (reformat) but since u don't have the cd, its almost impossible. "Sysprep" can do the trick or i dunno if other users can help but never encountered this kinda situation.

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