Re: what's the difference between 'account NAMED administror' and a account with admin privilegious?

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Ok then
so what I wish to do is...
When logging in....I should select 'admin'

Then why even have my own name?

and is there a way to delete 'Bill'
and rename 'admin' to 'Bill'?????





"Hobbes" <Hobbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g7he4l$8o1$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
FireBrick wrote:
thanks for the prompt reply and info
I'm guessing from the syntax that that command basically said
make the present user the administrator
?????

Will that hold after a reboot or do I have to do that every time?
I'm the ONLY user of this computer.


Please and thank you.






"Hobbes" <Hobbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g7hcap$14b$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
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many amatuer radio programs do not work well if installed into Vista's Programs directory.
Hence we have learned to not install that way but to specify a new directory in C: or even better to install into D:.
this is what I do.

But some of the programs which have auto update features or upload and download tons of data still get cranky.

One of the fellows said that most of these problems go away if you login into an account named 'Administrator' and not into an account that just has 'administrator rights'.

So how do I create an account named 'administrator'????
Now that I already have my account set up?

please and thank you.

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Click Start / type cmd / right click cmd.exe and select run as administrator / type net user administrator /active:yes /type exit ...restart PC

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the command you are looking for is net user administrator /active:yes

the way I wrote it is hard to read...Oops !

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No. That command added the admin account to the login screen.
When you reboot...it will show admin and your user name.

That configuration will stick.

If you want to remove the admin account from the login screen :
net user administrator /active:no




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