Deleting the guest account

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How do I delete the guest account in Windows XP
I don't want to just turn it off - I want to delete it.
 
Control Panel->User Accounts->Advanced Tab
Advanced User management
click on Advanced
Open Users
Right click Guest Account
and Delete.
 
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How do I delete the guest account in Windows XP
I don't want to just turn it off - I want to delete it.

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hi there. basically windows doesnt allow you to remove the
guest account because its a built-in account like the
administrator. its not good to remove built in accounts,
and the only safe way is to disable that account.
 
from the wonderful said:
Hi

Can't be done. The best that you can do is disable it.
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You can also delete anything relating to it under 'documents and
settings'. After which, there really isn't much left to worry about.
 
Hi

Deleting the D&S files/folders for the Guest Account could lead to problems if the Guest Account is needed at any time in the future.

Will
 
from the wonderful said:
Hi

Deleting the D&S files/folders for the Guest Account could lead to
problems if the Guest Account is needed at any time in the future.
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Nope, it won't - a vanilla set will just get created from 'default
user'. On most system which have never used 'Guest', there won't be
anything under D&S anyway.
 
from the wonderful said:
So, the 'Default User' doesn't matter where the Guest Account is concerned?
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I think what I said was that it doesn't matter if the 'guest' folder in
documents & settings gets removed (many systems don't have one anyway)
... I believe that 'default user' will be used as the basis for a new
profile whenever the system tries to load a profile and discovers it
doesn't have one.
 
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