Administration Log on screens

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I have two Administrator under my user accounts one which was on there when I
got my computer (Used) and one I created. I want to delete the first one can
I do this? Is so how. Nothing I seem to do works.

 

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irishprincess wrote:

> I have two Administrator under my user accounts one which was on
> there when I got my computer (Used) and one I created. I want to
> delete the first one can I do this? Is so how. Nothing I seem to do
> works.

to irishprincess,

There can be many administrator accounts on winxp, but there is only
one Administrator account--that is, the original Administrator acct
that was created when winxp was installed. You need to (1) be using the
traditional logon screen (as opposed to the "Welcome screen") AND (2)
you need to know the original Administrator account password in order
to do anything w/ the Administrator acct. Do you know the original
password, or can you obtain it?

 

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to irishprincess,
Do you know the password of the original Administrator account? You
need to know that in order to go much farther....

 

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irishprincess wrote:

> I have two Administrator under my user accounts one which was on
> there when I got my computer (Used) and one I created. I want to
> delete the first one can I do this? Is so how. Nothing I seem to do
> works.

to irishprincess,
You need the password to the original Administrator acct. Do you know
it or can you get it?

 

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You should NOT try to delete the default Administrator account. Period. What
would you do if your account became corrupted and unusable for some reason?
Answer - you would want to use the default Administrator account. Leave it!

Colin.

"Terry S. Bruce" wrote:

> irishprincess wrote:
>
> > I have two Administrator under my user accounts one which was on
> > there when I got my computer (Used) and one I created. I want to
> > delete the first one can I do this? Is so how. Nothing I seem to do
> > works.
>
> to irishprincess,
> You need the password to the original Administrator acct. Do you know
> it or can you get it?
>

 

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Why delete it? It can come in handy if ever any user acct goes bad... it
provides a way to log on to the machine with admin rights... I have used it
to repair/delete/recreate user accts.

"irishprincess" <irishprincess@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:45AA09D4-E3F2-47F4-85CE-F60EBA46DD4F@microsoft.com...
>I have two Administrator under my user accounts one which was on there when
>I
> got my computer (Used) and one I created. I want to delete the first one
> can
> I do this? Is so how. Nothing I seem to do works.