Erasing users in Win2k, how?

[javierdl]

A friend of mine brought me an old pc with Win2k, it has 9 users registered and he wants me to erase them. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance,

JDL

 

[Varun]

right click My Computer, select Manage. Go into Users, then Users, click on the user and delete. You'll likely have to remove their profile from C:\Documents and Settings

 

[javierdl]

Thanks Varun,

Unfortunately it didn't work : (
You see, when I first turn on the pc and it loads Win2k, it welcomes me with a little window to enter your username and passw. By clicking in the drop down list of users I can see that there are 9 users previously registered. The way I get into the system is by double clicking enter (my friend told me this). Except that once I'm in this way, and I do what you told me, I can only see "Administrator" and "Guest" as users. Where are the other 9?

JDL

 

[Budman]

you have to login as administrator to have the right to delete other users.

unless you have the admin password you're going to be screwed & you're just better off to format it & start fresh.

 

[javierdl]

Yes, that's what I suspected : (

Thanks Budman,

JDL

 

[Varun]

There are programs to change the administrator password, as well as some workarounds. Do a search here, there was a couple posts about this not too long ago.

If you can't find the posts, I believe one workaround is to go into safe mode where the safe mode admin account doesn't have a password set by default and most people don't know to set one. Give that a try.

When I posted my solution I made the assumption that you would be able to log in as the administrator but apparently that wasn't the case, sorry about that.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

If you have a XP disc laying around, put that in and do a repair (YES A XP DISK) it will cancel out the administrator settings.

 

[Thyme]

Is it possible that they're not even registered and that list is just stored somewhere? I didn't think 2k did that, but maybe that's still an option. I believe TweakUI will clear it.

The password reset program that runs off of a 1.44MB diskette has always worked for me.