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I just purchased a 3 month old Dell Studio 1555 windows 7 OS 320GB HD 4GB memory. My question is this the person I purchased this computer from still has his personnal information all over the place. I added myself as a new administrator but his name shows up in places like C:/user/John Doe/documents/favorites. How and where do I edit the computer using windows 7 to show myself instead ? I also edited the computer to my name but it didn't change many of the instances where he is still shown

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I just purchased a 3 month old Dell Studio 1555 windows 7 OS 320GB HD 4GB memory. My question is this the person I purchased this computer from still has his personnal information all over the place. I added myself as a new administrator but his name shows up in places like C:/user/John Doe/documents/favorites. How and where do I edit the computer using windows 7 to show myself instead ? I also edited the computer to my name but it didn't change many of the instances where he is still shown

Thanks for the Help


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You simply need to remove the other users Account Profile.

Open Control Panel/User Accounts.

Select manage another account.

Select the old account. Select the option to Delete the account.

You should see a prompt asking if you wish to remove the users files and settings. Select Yes.

Hope this helps.

Thank You for using Windows 7

Ronnie Vernon MVP
MVP 1999 - Present
Windows Insider MVP

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skline6497 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just purchased a 3 month old Dell Studio 1555 windows 7 OS 320GB HD 4GB
> memory. My question is this the person I purchased this computer from still has
> his personnal information all over the place. I added myself as a new
> administrator but his name shows up in places like C:/user/John
> Doe/documents/favorites. How and where do I edit the computer using windows 7 to
> show myself instead ? I also edited the computer to my name but it didn't change
> many of the instances where he is still shown
>
> Thanks for the Help
>
 
 
With second-hand computers, especially if acquired from strangers
but perhaps even if acquired from a family member, your wisest course of
action would probably be to format the hard drive and start fresh. You
have problems because the original owner downloaded/installed viruses
or other malware.
 
Simply follow the computer manufacturer's Recovery instructions
to return the co0mputer to its original ex-factory state.
 
 
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