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Windows 98 profiles

Dec 15, 2003 9:39AM PST

I would like to delete two user profiles. How can I do this? Thank you

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Re:Windows 98 profiles
Dec 15, 2003 3:55PM PST

As far as I know by head, like the way you made them. In Control Panel, select Users (or Passwords, or whatever the English term is), select the one you want to remove, then click on remove.

If this doesn't help, let me know. Tonight at home, I can have a close look at it.

Kees

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Re:Re:Windows 98 profiles
Dec 16, 2003 10:35AM PST

Maybe I don't have to remove them. Here's the problem. I installed Norton Anti Virus on a friend's computer. I hit cancel when the profile screen came up, and installed it. Now when they log into a profile, it does not show Norton running. Is there a way I can install it so that all profiles can use it?

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Don't know Norton.
Dec 16, 2003 4:42PM PST

However, it seems normal that installing is a machine thing, not a user thing. So do Zonealarm and eSafe work, anyway. Once installed by any user, they appear with every user. And the default user (which is the user you get into if you press cancel at the logon screen) is a kind of user.

A few suggestions:
1. Does Norton appear (what exactly?) if you logon as the default user by pressing cancel?
2. Is Norton running in the background (press control-alt-del, maybe, or run msinfo32) when logging on as a default user, and as a normal user?
3. Add some startup process only (with regedit) for each user (clumsy, to say the least)? Or (equivalent) put some shortcut in the startup groep for 'all users'?
4. Try reinstalling Norton logged in as those users? Might be difficult.
5. See Norton help site or documentation that came with the program.

Kees