Anthony's solution is intended if you are upgrading from xp to vista. I am
upgrading from vista basic to vista home premium and have found the problem
with duplicate user accounts. Any advice gladly accepted!
Rob

"anthonyp" wrote:

> If you look in "computer" (Old windows explorer etc.) Do you see a folder
> called windows.old on the C: drive?
> This may be causing your problem.
> I have had to do this on a couple of PCs and it has worked each time.
>
> Click on your start button (the windows orb)
> Then type "cleanup" one word without the quotes. In the start search box
> Press enter
> Select the drive you want to clean up
> Choose your C: drive because that is the one you want to clean of the extra
> windows.old folder. Click ok. This is safe
> Give your computer a minute to analyze itself.
> Scroll down the list of files to delete and if you do have the "windows.old"
> file/folder listed there put a check in the box beside it.
> Then click on OK
> Reboot and you should be ok
>
> "Jeff Volzer" <Jeff Volzer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:099AC80A-E60A-4558-B8B5-F8B0EEB45FE3@microsoft.com...
> >I upgraded my Vista Home Basic to Vista Home Premium. Now I have duplicate
> > user accounts/profiles showing up on my login screen. As far as I can
> > tell,
> > there is only one true account, but two identical icons appear. If I add a
> > new user account, same thing: two icons appear for the new account. How do
> > I
> > delete the duplicates?
>
>