account deletion

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...

Here is what happened. I went to administrator tools > Computer management > Local users and groups > Users. Now I double clicked on the main user account. Then I switched to the 'member of' tab. I deleted the things whatever present over there. Then I restarted the system. Now I can...

Hello all, Did some searching, no luck, so I hope someone here can help please. I got a computer from someone with Windows 7 on it, and they had already created their account. I was tired of their initials being on everything and changed the name of the account. That was a surface fix and...

I have 2 user accounts, one is (standard user) the other is (administrator) I would like to delete one of them probably (standard user) but how do I retain all the files associated with it? Thanks, Bob

Ok, about two weeks ago I seemed to have gotten a virus that we believed to have been some how related to the google toolbar. We could not open the anti-virus, or do to much from my user account, but everything works fine on my moms user account, so she ran the anti-virus and what not. With no...

I delete a user account profile for the first user of the notebook. I found that anytime a new software is installed, it keeps suggesting me the old user name. I search the registry changing all instances of the original user name but found one that I cannot change: "OwnerMachineName". Any...

I created multiple user accounts, then deleted one including all data files option. Yet the entire username folder was left intact all subfolders and data the lot! I.E. ..users\username\-- and all sub-structure was left untouched.