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  • 30-01-2008 11:11pm
    #1
    Bisar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭


    Recently one of the computers in the office crashes and it's been acting a little strangely since. Unfortunately it's fallen to me to fix it. The guy who was using it at the time insists he did nothing out of the ordinary - I have my doubts but in the absence of evidence I'm going to have to assume that it just failed.

    Anyway, the computer originally had a 2 user accounts, one of which was used to control some software on a second computer and log it's output, all via ethernet. This control and logging function has since stopped working. I think the network settings for the second account are messed up. I want to delete this account and set it up again from scratch but it's dissappeared from the User Accounts section in the Control Panel. I know it's still on the computer because when I try to set up a new account using the same name as the original the computer tells me that the account already exists. Has anyone come across comething like this before? Any idea how to go about making the account visible again so that I can delete it? Not sure if this is significant but an ASP.Net Machine account showed up on the pc at the same time.


    Proabably should have mentioned at some point that the OS is XP Pro


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,416 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    at command prompt try
    net users
    net users "joe bloggs" /del


  • #3
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Not sure if this is significant but an ASP.Net

    Nothing to worry about, generally this are used to deploy images by OEM's

    You could try and rebuild the user profile thats missing.....


  • #4
    Bisar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Bisar


    Thanks, I'll give the comand prompt thing a shot in the morning. Rebuilding the profile would be the easiest option except that the controlling/logging software has to use the existing profile name- I can't change this. The software scans the PC at start up to find the profile. If the profile exists on the system (even in it's possibly corrupted state) the software will just assume that all is well, but when I try to run it communication fails. If the the profile doesn't exist then the software will create it with all the correct settings. So the current theory is that if I can delete this problem profile my issues will be resolved. Fingers crossed.


  • #5
    Bisar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Bisar


    Manged to delete the corrupt account this morning using command prompt method. The software automatically recreated it with all the correct settings so now everything is communicating and all is good in my world. Thanks for the helps gents.


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