Re: Rename Administrator Account

If you're ever in the mood to "change history" you can do this. Of course
it won't help on all the websites that scrape and rebroadcast postings, but
it will help with google.

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8380

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Ken Aldrich
DSRAZOR for Windows
Visual Click Software, Inc.
www.visualclick.com

"Ageing Brilliantine Stick Insect"
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Hello Ageing,

Haven't spoken to you in a long time.....probably a good thing too! Did
you
notice (when you so observantly observed the values in the 'rename
administrator account' thingy had been set to 'administrator' and 'guest')
that you were looking at the local security policy??

I'll bet you didn't, and now you are going to have to go and scrape all
that
egg off your face because there is no 'delete my post that I stupidly
posted
before looking more closely' button, and now everyone who visits these
forums
is going to know just what a slacker you are!

Lucky I know you well and can get away with saying these sorts of things
to
you!

"Ageing Brilliantine Stick Insect" wrote:

In the course of troubleshooting a 1202 error I noticed that in our Group
Policies, the setting for 'rename administrator account' and 'rename
guest
account' are not disabled, but rather, have the values 'administrator'
and
'guest' respectively. I have never changed these, so can someone tell me,
are
these the default values, or should these options have an 'enabled' and
'disabled' setting? The reason I ask is that the error I am getting on a
workstation is telling me that the problem is because the 'rename
administrator account' setting has been enabled, but, as I said above, it
hasn't been 'enabled' as such. If putting a new account name in for these
values (eg admin1 for a new name for the administrator account) is how
you
'enable' these settings, can I disable them by simply removing the
values?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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