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john
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      06-06-2007
CAN SOME ONE HELP PLEASE..
I just went to create a new user account on vista and found one i had not
created it's
called ' ASP.NET MACHINE ACCOUNT ' it is a standard user account and is
password protected. nobody else has had access to my computer and i have got
no idea where it came from.. Should i delete this account . Is it doing
something on my
computer that i should know about. Any help with this would be appreciated.

 
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Hatter
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      06-06-2007
The account is created when .Net is installed - more information here:
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

john wrote:
>CAN SOME ONE HELP PLEASE..
>I just went to create a new user account on vista and found one i had not
>created it's
>called ' ASP.NET MACHINE ACCOUNT ' it is a standard user account and is
>password protected. nobody else has had access to my computer and i have got
>no idea where it came from.. Should i delete this account . Is it doing
>something on my
>computer that i should know about. Any help with this would be appreciated.


 
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Francois PIETTE
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      06-07-2007
> CAN SOME ONE HELP PLEASE..
> I just went to create a new user account on vista and found one i had not
> created it's
> called ' ASP.NET MACHINE ACCOUNT ' it is a standard user account and is
> password protected. nobody else has had access to my computer and i have

got
> no idea where it came from.. Should i delete this account . Is it doing
> something on my
> computer that i should know about. Any help with this would be

appreciated.

This account has been created when installing .NET
See http://www.google.be/search?q=ASP%2eNET+MACHINE+ACCOUNT

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