Deleting user profiles

Windows XP requires at least one User account. If you attempt
to delete them all, you'll not be able to use Windows XP.

Why you should not run your computer as an administrator:

When you run Microsoft Windows XP using the Computer administrator account,
your computer is more vulnerable to viruses and other security risks than when you
use the Limited account. For example, if you are using the Computer administrator
account when you visit a Web site that contains a virus, a Trojan horse might be installed
on your computer where it could do things like reformat your hard drive, delete all your
files, or create a new user account with administrative access. By contrast, if you are using
the Limited account when you visit an Internet site that contains a virus, your computer is
less likely to be infected by it.

User Accounts That You Create During Setup Are Administrator Account Types
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

How To Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

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"joan" wrote:

|I don't want to use any User profiles for my pc. Not even
| for myself. I want to delete my user profile. How can I
| customize my pc to not use any user profiles.

Hi Carey,

I suspect most “administrators� don’t work that way, we’re all settings and
suck it and see addicts.

Every month an avalanche of computer mags give out trial programs, and daily
we download and install bits and pieces to try out, and are constantly trying
to dig garbage out. We defrag when in the mood, may or may not let antivirus,
firewalls and all sorts of other stuff do their updates now, but perhaps in
ten minutes, but maybe now because it’s as good an excuse as any there is to
go and get a cup of coffee. And the it will be lunchtime and we can spend it
tweaking every setting in sight, just for something to do. And, as you can
see from the constant stream of postings to Windows sites all over the world,
we spend half our lives fiddling about trying to recover from self inflicted
crashes. If I worked the way you suggest I would be spending half my time
bored, just waiting for Windows to swap me from user to admin and back again.

And we love it all really, the agony and the ecstasy, the pride and the
prejudice, unbrained combat in the registry zone, hunting the missing icon,
threshing the links, it’s all there, the ancient skills of hunting and
gathering, craftwork and artwork, all rolled into one, it’s our creative
activity outlet. And the real requirement is not for a thing that does
anything, it is for a thing that lets us feel happy and content when we get
it to do anything at all, which is usually about once a day, the success rate
that seems to be considered adequate by most people.

Albert.