Re: Deleting Admin Account

On Jun 2, 4:08 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Duck wrote:
I have a system on which I want to delete the Admin account. I have
already created another account with administrative priviledges, as
well as another with only limited priviledges. I don't know if it
is safe to completely delete the Admin account, and if it is can I
safely do so through the "user accounts" section of the control
panel ?

You cannot delete the built-in administrator account.
You can 'rename' it - but it cannot be deleted/disabled.

Having more than one administrative level account is *not* necessarily a bad
thing - as long as the password for such accounts are strong ones. In
fact - it can save you in certain situations.

However - you should *not* generally use a administrative level account for
daily normal use.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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Shenan,

Thanks for that bit of knowledge....now..can I use my new
administrative level account to change the Type of the Admin account
to a limited account, and be sure that if someone knows the Admin
password that they can not change the type back to administrator
priviledges?

.

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