user account deleting problem

[dan larson]

i am the administator on my computer. there are other users in my family that have there own sign on name. they have limited accounts. i have tried to delete their unused accounds by deleting all files and then their accound via control panel and user acco
unts. when i press DELETE THE ACCOUNT the program stops responding and does not delete the account. how can i delete these accounts?! if you know how to fix my problem it would be greatly appreciated!

[Colin Nash - [MVP Windows Hardware]]

Dan,

Please explain how you went about "deleting all their files."

Did you manually delete the folder with their name underneath \Documents and
Settings, and then proceed to delete the account itself?

I'm trying to figure out if this could cause it to freeze up on you...



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Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP



"dan larson" > wrote in message
...
> i am the administator on my computer. there are other users in my family
that have there own sign on name. they have limited accounts. i have tried
to delete their unused accounds by deleting all files and then their accound
via control panel and user accounts. when i press DELETE THE ACCOUNT the
program stops responding and does not delete the account. how can i delete
these accounts?! if you know how to fix my problem it would be greatly
appreciated!

[Michael Stevens]

p.mc wrote:
> When trying to delete a couple of game demos using *add or remove*, a
> box appears stating : "could not open INSTALL.LOG FILE." I tried
> uninstalling them using the uninstall utility within their own
> folders but I get the same message. The INSTALL.LOG FILES are there
> and can be opened when clicked on, but for reasons unknown to me the
> computer can't open them.
>
> So can anyone aid me in deleting these files, or a solution to fix the
> problem?

Try reinstalling and then uninstall. It may be a terminology thing, but you
rarely or never "delete" a program or application. You must run uninstall to
properly remove all folders, files and registry settings.

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[p.mc]

"Michael Stevens" > wrote in message
...
> p.mc wrote:
> > When trying to delete a couple of game demos using *add or remove*, a
> > box appears stating : "could not open INSTALL.LOG FILE." I tried
> > uninstalling them using the uninstall utility within their own
> > folders but I get the same message. The INSTALL.LOG FILES are there
> > and can be opened when clicked on, but for reasons unknown to me the
> > computer can't open them.
> >
> > So can anyone aid me in deleting these files, or a solution to fix the
> > problem?
>
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>
> Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
>
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>
> Try reinstalling and then uninstall. It may be a terminology thing, but
you
> rarely or never "delete" a program or application. You must run uninstall
to
> properly remove all folders, files and registry settings.

Reinstall didn't work so I highlighted the files deleted them then deleted
the folder, I then removed the folder from the uninstall folder in the
registry.
Would that be alright. or have I done a bad thing?

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