Multiple corrupt user accounts

TimW made this comment when he posted a reply in the Malware forum, "Your logs are clean. However, I see you have many corrupt user accounts. I suggest that you post in the software forum as your issues are not caused by malware..".

So I'm here to ask for help. The multiple user accounts are from a number of times that the computer has been in the shop and had some kind of repair installation done. I have not messed with this very much as somewhere along the line windows got changed from the home edition to the Pro version and I'm not sure about where the validation code is stored.

Thanks for any help.

Gerard

 

Greetings, gaskibba.

You might take a look at the steps outlined in the following MS KB articles: KB 555473 and KB 326688.

 

Hi, Thanks for the response. But those articles don't help me much. Can I Just do a backup of the entire drive and then delete those user accounts. I'll need some direction on doing that.
Thanks
Gerard
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I see no reason why can't you just delete the accounts. As long as you've got one Admin account and one Guest account, any others could be safely disabled/deleted after any important data the accounts may contain is properly saved.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/lsm_delete_user.mspx?mfr=true