Unknown User Accounts - What are they
I right clicked on "My Computer" and "Advanced" "User Profile" and then "Settings" to list the User Accounts.I have 4 valid accounts, 1 adm and 3 valid user accounts,.I have 3 "Account Unknown 855mb Local Backup 6/..."I have 1 "account Unknown 50.7mb Local Local 7/..."Question:Any idea what they are?I Lost two "limited accounts" and have reset them up two weeks ago. The 3 "backup" accounts all have the same MB as one of my replacement "limited account" 855mb.The last one looks like my other limited account lost and set up new.I have been having an issue with Windows Easy Transfer, saying "Administrator" is running in as a Temporary Profile and will not allow be to execute my backup. I am holding out for some help.A few others have the same problemJerry 1 person needs an answerI do too
June 24th, 2010 9:13pm

HiWell, I lost my limited account again. I copied the data from "username" to a new file except the Utuser junk and the end. Went to "My Computer" Properties, Advanced tab, User Profiles-setting. Then deleted three of the 4 Unknown accounts each indicating the "Directory was not empty". The last one would not highlight "delete".Tried to delete the user data after I deleted the User account but still would not delete.Logged off and went into "safe mode, Administrator" Renamed the lost user account, and went to "My Computer...etc and deleted the last "unknown account". Now on to add the "same" limited user account, copy back all files except the Ut... and I should be back in business.I will then try to run Windows Easy Transfer.
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June 25th, 2010 1:27am

The corruption still is in force for the User Accounts but,The "unknown Accounts" are the "folder sets" from the last account. When I copied the lost user account folder to a new folder with a different Name, in created a "unknown Account" for it and when I renamed the lost user account folder, it created a second entry. I deleted the first "unknown account" ok, the 2nd say it could not find the folder.I think this issue is related to some malware. I home a clean installation of Windows 7 will resolve the problem.Jerry
June 25th, 2010 7:02am

delete them all and it worked
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August 5th, 2010 2:47am

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