Old files of user accounts appear always.

I just bought a laptop from my local pawn shawp. The Admin user has been "Pawn of Pappy" which was the name of the shawp pawn. I changed the Admin to mine I wanted to... but... in C:\Users theres still a pawn Pappy, comments and public folders. (Jason Pitts also [assuming that it was the original owner].) How do I remove these? What can I j\ust delete everything myself or what? I tried to remove them, but it has begun to show I was Delete as 40 000 files and 15 GB so I canceld it because I didn't want to delete things I need. Any help?

Sunday, October 3, 2010, 04:20:44 + 0000, ddh052286 wrote:

I just bought a laptop from my local pawn shawp. The Admin user has been "Pawn of Pappy" which was the name of the shawp pawn. I changed the Admin to mine I wanted to... but... in C:\Users theres still a pawn Pappy, comments and public folders. (Jason Pitts also [assuming that it was the original owner].) How do I remove these? What can I j\ust delete everything myself or what? I tried to remove them, but it has begun to show I was Delete as 40 000 files and 15 GB so I canceld it because I didn't want to delete things I need. Any help?

If I bought a used computer, no matter who previously owned, the first thing I have with it would be to reinstall the operating system itself. You don't know how the computer has been maintained,
which has been improperly installed, what's missing, what virus and
There may be spyware, etc. I would not live with someone of another errors and problems, possibility of kiddy p0rn, etc, and I would not recommend anyone else to do.
If you reinstall Windows properly, you are playing with fire. And
This is especially true if you bought in a pawn shop.

Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

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