Re: Help - 2 Admin accounts - want only one
- From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:51:30 -0400
No, there is the built in Administrator account, which is there, regardless of what you set up at the Out of Box Experience. If you add users there, they are Administrators by default. It does seem kind of redundant, but having a second Administrator level account could save you from a re-format/reinstall. Of course, you shouldn't run as an Administrator, unless you need to. This lessens the risk of viral or other infections.
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"Kent Sarnes" <kent_234@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dgn6av$maa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ok, but this is strange, since it by default is only one Administrators
> account...or am I wrong...?
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> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
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> This is for your protection. The built-in Administrator account may be your
> only way in to repair the system or make changes if your "every day"
> administrator account becomes corrupt for some reason.
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> Display\Security
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> "Kent Sarnes" <kent_234@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I cannot delete the second account even if there is 2 of them. I get the
>> message "You need at least one admin account on this machine" to serve
>> user
>> accounts and such...
>> Why is this?? It seems like Windows cannot see my "main" Admin account,
>> because if I create a 3rd Admin account , then I get to delete the 2.
>> Admin
>> account, bet the thing is I don't want to have more than one
>> Administrators
>> account........
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