[maccrack]

I bought a used iBook and it hass the previous owners crap on it but i donot have the disk that came with, it came with the iBook and charger itself..

Is there a away i can reset the iBook to strach basicly or as close as possible like a recovery or somethin. P.S im new to macs thanx in advance

Also under the password section how do i get rid of the "Short Name" its grey and i cannot click on it.

(this is my friends account name)

[frdmfghtr]

My first question is: "Why didn't you get the installation CDs with it?"

The only way that comes to mind here is to create a new user account for your use and delete the other user account (assuming that the other account is not the only administrator account). The various user preferences and libraries, documents, etc. from that account will be deleted.

To do this:

(1) Create your normal, everyday use account. Do not make this an administrator account; leave the "allow user to administer this machine" box unchecked.

(2) Create a new administrator account.

(3) Delete the previous owner;s account.

That's the best I can come up without doing a complete wipe and reinstallation of OS X from the recovery CDs.

[mfbernstein]

To a certain degree, yes.

First, you can't change the short name (it's the internal name that the system uses, changing it would result in bad things). Best simply to create a new account for yourself in System Preferences. Make sure that the new account has "Allow user to administer this computer" checked. Then logout, and log back in, this time as yourself. Go to System Preferences and delete the other account (make sure to "delete immediately" if you want to get rid of the old user's data).

Once that's done, the only residual data from the previous owner are probably some of the applications. Don't delete any of the Apple apps in the Applications folder (you can tell if they're from Apple by doing a 'get info', and looking at the copyright field), but feel free to nix any of the others

Given that you don't have install disks, make sure to make a complete backup of your system.