Re: Can't delete an administrator account

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From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:08:03 +0100

Hi

Yes, good point. I should have pointed that out.

Mike

Don't try and delete the original Administrator Account. You need to keep
that intact. 

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"Star Fleet Admiral Q"
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| I hope you are not trying to delete the account named "administrator"
| as it needs to remain for some software to be
| installed/removed/operate properly.
|
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| Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service
| --------------------------------------------------------
| "Mike L" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
| news:OH6Yqo9WEHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| > I have 2 administrator accounts.  I go into the control panal as
| user 1,
| > select user 2, and select delete user.  I then select delete files
| and then
| > delete account.  (I also tried it with keep files with the same
| results)
| > After a couple minutes, Not Responding appears in the title bar and
| when I
| > exit that screen it asks if I want to report the error to MS.  When
| I
| > reported the error, it did not give me a cause.
| >
| > Bottom line, is there a way to force a delete of an administrator
| account?
| >
| > Thanks
| >
| > Mike
| >
| >
|
|

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