Reinstalling clean copy of 10.9.1 issue

Hello all,
I am facing an issue with reinstalling a clean copy of osx 10.9.1 on ssd..
The system installed successfully. . But when it ask me to create the user and password.. it takes forever.. it is never move to the next step.. just loading or processing the creation of account. . Nothing else.
Any help plz

Hi, FairMaiden123 -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
...this can be "a complicated and lengthy procedure…".
Yes, but it need not be. The easiest way (that I've found) to do that is, for example, to open the Extensions folders from both system folders, set both to list view and arrange them side by side. Compare the two - anything in the old one that is already in the new one can be thrown away; what's left are the 3rd-party items that you should consider moving from the old one to the new one.
Do the same for the Control Panels folder and the Fonts folder.
Also, you may want to move your browser's folder from the old Preferences folder to the new one - your browser's settings, favorites/bookmarks, things like that are in there. For Netscape, it's a folder named Netscape Users; for Internet Explorer, it's named Explorer.
Do not move any other files from the old Preferences folder into the new one unless you absolutely have to - such as because you don't have a copy of a program's serial number. Preference files, as a group, are the easiest to become damaged - no sense bringing possibly damaged files into a clean system if you don't have to.
Once you're done with that (it really goes much faster than it looks like it will), restart and rebuild the desktop.

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