If I delete a windows 8.1 user, will remain family safety active?

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2014-07
  • user327764

    I have an user which has family safety enabled by the second user. If I delete the second user, will family safety remain active on the first user?

    I am using Windows 8.1. Also, I'm not sure if the second user is local or a default user; when I try to change its password with administrator (user account is named 'net user'), it returns an error.

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  • zyboxenterprises

    Any default Windows account should not in any circumstances be deleted manually. Windows can create additional user accounts to ensure the security of your computer, or to add additional features.

    The certain account that you want to remove is explained here, one of the answers also states:

    When you install .Net it creates this account. You can just leave it alone.

    If you remove this account, most likely some of your programs will no longer work, have restricted functionality, or will have many problems (or even crash).

    To answer your question, no, deleting the account will not remove or restrict the 'family safety' feature of Windows 8.1, although you shouldn't even touch the .NET account in the first place.


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  • TeaJay

    Here's my question simply and then the details in case they help to get me an appropriate answer.

    Question: How can I completely and permanently delete a user account in Windows 7 so that I can create another one with the same user name without the computer name extension added, eg Jane Smith not Jane Smith.computer name?

    The details: I just did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. (My laptop crashed, I reinstalled Vista and restored backup files but things weren't working so I decided to just get Windows 7 since I had to start over anyway).

    I used Windows Easy Transfer to save just about everything, even customizing to include a user's appdata from Windows.old which was created when I reinstalled Vista -- not knowing that another windows.old file would be created with the installation of Windows 7. After installing Windows 7, I used Windows Easy Transfer to transfer the user file, appdata, to the new user account which I gave the same name (Jane Smith) in case having a different name would cause problems with reading files or something.

    Afterwards, I realized that I did not want ALL of that junk. So, I thought no problem, I'll just delete the user account I just created, nothing lost, and create another one this time transferring only the files I wanted (using the customize option in windows easy transfer).

    I wanted to keep the same user name, e.g. Jane Smith, so after I deleted the user account I checked the files, and I didn't see. It was late so I went to bed and the next morning I created a new user with that same name (Jane Smith). The files looked fine if I remember correctly.

    Meanwhile, I updated the computer and it restarted a couple times. As I was moving files to the "Jane Smith" user account file, things weren't working as they should. I was actually moving files to the deleted user account and that the current user account was named "Jane Smith.computer name" and that's where the files needed to go.

    I don't like this. It's too confusing. I want just "Jane Smith". How can I do this without just changing the user name (which doesn't change it in the file path etc)? I want the first one GONE.

    If I can't do this, is it a problem to create an account with another name and still transfer files to it without path or other problems?

    I hope this question makes sense and that someone can help me.

    Thank you in advance!


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  • avirk

    User profile has created a good tutorial for this take a look on this and try the step in given tutorial.

  • 0xC0000022L

    This got nothing to do with the username. Whenever the profile cannot be written to, usually due to permission issues, Windows (more to the point the logon provider/winlogon.exe) will automagically create a new folder for you. You could even provoke this. This also seems (or seemed) to happen when a profile hive could not be unloaded or so.

    So:

    1. Make sure the permissions are correct (icacls and friends, run as admin)
    2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the SID of your user (Sysinternals has a tool to find that) and in the subkey with the SID (will usually end in -1000 and higher on non-domain machines) find the value ProfileImagePath and correct it to whatever you want it to point to.
    3. Log off and back in ...

    This has been the same principle ever since NT4. Possible there is a GUI method to achieve the same these days ...