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Delete an Account on Windows XP



1. Go into the Windows control panel. There are many ways to do this, but the most common one is to go into the Windows Start menu and click on "Control Panel" on the right side. Follow whichever way is most convenient for you.

2. Click on "User Accounts" in the resulting window. You'll either see the Classic view (with rows of icons) or the Category view (which is self explanatory). Both have a shortcut leading to the User Accounts control panel.

3. If a control panel has not already shown up, click the "User Accounts" control panel at the bottom of the window. If it has, you can skip this step.

4. Click the link to whichever user account you want to get rid of.

5. The next window will have a list of links of actions you can do to the user account, one of which will be "Delete the account". This is the action you'll want to click on.

6. The last window you'll see will ask if you want to keep the soon-to-be-obliterated user accounts files in a folder on your desktop. It's your choice here.

7. If you've already backed up everything important on this user account, you can safely click "Delete files".

8. If you didn't, then you should click "Keep files".



9. The user account will begin to be eradicated. Go and do something else while Windows XP does its thing.

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