Re: Issue w/ Password for Administrator Account

freebirdc0mp1exd wrote:
Heyy,


I hope everyone is doing alright. I have a small issue with the
Administrator account in Windows Vista Home Premium. I enabled the
administrator account two months ago, and also assigned a password to it
for extra security.

Four people, including myself use this computer, and one of the user's
which is also an account with administrative privileges (not the
administrator account), has achieved the ability to remove the
Administrator Account Password, through User accounts in the Control
Panel. Note: I do have user account control's (UAC) turned off, and I am
about to try turning it on to see if that helps out.

Other than that, I am having an issue with a person removing my
administrative account password. How to I stop this from happening
completely?



Simply do not give any other users administrative privileges. If anyone else does have administrative privileges, there's *NOTHING* you can do to prevent his/her exercising them.




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