Windows 10 Created Separate Admin Account

[TZSmith]

I was looking through Windows recently, and messing with some settings, when I noticed that Windows wouldn't let me change my timezone. It stated that I did not have permission, and to get permission from the computer administrator. I thought I was the only account on here, which is an administrator, and Windows let me change the timezone setting just a few days ago. (This is a pretty new install of Windows). I decided to try rebooting, to see if that would fix the issue. While signing back in to my account, I noticed on the lower left hand side of the screen an Administrator acccount that I did not create. When I signed into that administrator account, I was able to change my timezone settings and such without any problems. Is there anyway I can get rid of this account, while still being able to change settings like timezone the way that I should? It's frustrating having to sign out of my account, and into another account just to change small things.

UPDATE: I believe this admin account is the secret one hidden in Windows 10. I remember, while trying to fix this, using the command "net user administrator /active:yes". What the question is is, how do I give my regular administrator account the same rights as this one? (I have no idea why it doesn't already have these rights.)

 

[Colif]

sometimes setting up a homegroup can fix odd permissions issues like this one

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/17145/windows-homegroup-from-start-to-finish

 

[johnbl]

that is a local administrator account valid only for your machine. windows will not let you delete the last administrator account in the database. You might be able to rename it though (at least you used to be able to rename the account if you are worried about it)

the command below will show the list of users on the system:
net.exe users ; will show the list of users
net.exe localgroup administrators ; will show the list of local admins for the machine

I think SAM = sercurity accounts manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Account_Manager
sam database is stored at c:\windows\system32\config directory.