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Deleted User Account Reappearing

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    bebens is offline Junior Member
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    Deleted User Account Reappearing

    I'm unable to delete a user administrator account that was created by a program on Hiram's boot disk. The user account was created to delete a password on another administrator account.

    I can run 'control userpasswords2' and delete the account, I can delete the account the normal way in User Accounts Control Panel, but each time I reboot, the account reappears. When I delete the account I can log off and log back on without seeing the deleted account. It's when I reboot that I have the problem.

    The problem account was created in Vista before I upgraded to Win 7.

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    If this is the built-in Administrator account then it CANNOT be deleted. But you can hide it.

    Try this:

    (Run as admin)
    Start => cmd => type: net user administrator /active:no

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    Deleted User Account Reappearing

    I've been able to disable the account per the instructions from "cybercore". What I don't understand is that in "Users" I have an "Administrator" account as a built in account and I have this offending account which I call "Temp". When I try to change the membership of "Temp" from "Administrator" to "User", the change takes for the session, but on the next boot, Temp is added to the "Adminstrator" group again.

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    Re: Deleted User Account Reappearing

    I have the same problem. Any solution?

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    Re: Deleted User Account Reappearing

    Quote Originally Posted by eduardobcastro View Post
    I have the same problem. Any solution?
    I did what Cybercore suggested.

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    Re: Deleted User Account Reappearing

    I would like to know whether somebody was able to delete the user instead of disabling it.

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