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How do you delete the Guest account?

 
 
Steve T
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      04-19-2009
How do you delete the Guest account? It's turned off but it seems somehow
it could be a security threat and I'd like to delete it. Please advise.

Thanks you,

Steve

 
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Michael Walraven
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      04-19-2009
Run a command prompt as administrator.
NET USER GUEST /DELETE
should do the trick.

My advice: don't do that

Michael


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> How do you delete the Guest account? It's turned off but it seems somehow
> it could be a security threat and I'd like to delete it. Please advise.
>
> Thanks you,
>
> Steve


 
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Ex_Brit
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      04-19-2009

If it's turned off it's not a threat. It should never be used anyway.
If you do have "a guest" then create a limited user account for that
purpose.

Trying to delete parts of Windows that are "built-in" is a dangerous
practice.


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