How to Delete PS3 Profiles

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Last Updated: March 9, 2022 Tested

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This wikiHow teaches you how to delete profiles on your PS3. You can delete user profiles in the Users menu on the crossbar (XMB).

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   Navigate to the Users menu. The Users menu has an icon that resembles a house with a smiley face. It's on the far left side of the Xross Media Bar (XMB). Press and hold the Left button on the Dualshock controller.
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   Highlight the user you want to delete. Press up and down on the controller to select different user profiles in the Users menu on the PS3.
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   Login to the user profile you want to delete. After highlighting the user profile in the Users menu, press X on the Dualshock controller to log in to the user profile.
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   Navigate to the Users menu again. After you log in to the profile you want to delete, navigate to the Users again. It's on the far left side of the XMB.
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   Highlight the user you want to delete. Press up and down on the controller to select different user profiles in the Users menu on the PS3.
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   Press △ on the controller. It's the green button on the Dualshock controller. This displays the Options menu.

   • You must be logged into the user profile to display the Options menu.
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   Select Delete. It's the third option in the Options menu. Press the down button twice to highlight the Delete option. Press X on the Dualshock controller to confirm.
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   Select Yes. This confirms that you understand that this will delete all the save data, messages, trophies and other information. Press the left button on the Dualshock controller to highlight Yes and the press the X button to confirm.
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   Select Yes again. This confirms that you want to delete the profile. Press the left button on the Dualshock controller to highlight Yes and the press the X button to confirm. This deletes the profile.
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  I have games in my PS3 but the PS3 keeps on freezing, please what can I do to stop it?

  

  Kaitlin L

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  You might have to go into safe-mode. Here's how: if you have your PS3 on, then turn it off by pressing the power off button on the front of the console. That will turn off the console. Press it again but this time, hold the power button until you cycle through to the third beep, it will be a double beep. Then connect a PS3 controller to the console and you are in safe-mode. Only do this if you know what you are doing.

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