Remove User Accounts from the Login Screen in Windows XP Lowell Heddings @lowellheddings February 17, 2008, 11:37pm EDT So you login to your computer every single day, but there’s more than one account to choose from either because you got the computer from somebody else, or some software package added a user account that you really don. A user profile is a set of files and folders to store all the personal preferences, app settings, desktop information and other data. If your user profile is corrupted, it can cause unexpected issue with your Windows account, or even lock yourself out of the computer.
Sometimes a user profile may become corrupted and require deletion. This is how you do it.
2 Steps total
Step 1: Steps - Windows 7
Use Registry Editor to remove the appropriate User name keys from the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionProfileList.
When you are done, quit Registry Editor.
Use My Computer or Windows Explorer to remove the appropriate WindowsProfiles User name folders.
Step 2: Steps - Windows 8
Use Registry Editor to remove the appropriate User name keys from the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsntCurrentVersionProfileList.
When you are done, quit Registry Editor.
Use My Computer or Windows Explorer to remove the appropriate WindowsProfiles User name folders.
Windows Xp User Account Control
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5 Steps total
Step 1: Open Registry Editor
Click Start, Run, type regedit and press Enter
Step 2: Backup key
Locate the following key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoft]
Right click on 'Microsoft', click 'Export'; please name the file as 'RegBackup' (without quotation marks) and then save it to the C: drive as a backup.
Step 3: Delete Microsoft key
Highlight Microsoft, right click and click 'Delete'.
Step 4: Repeat for other keys
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Repeat steps (i.e. backup first, then delete) for the following registry keys.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoft]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionGroup Policy Objects]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
Step 5: Reboot
Reboot the PC