Re: Too Many Admistrators

From: g (sandkicker_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/19/03 

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:35:09 GMT

Mary
when you set up XP and made accounts for yourself and your husband, the XP
"adminstrator" no longer shows on the welcome screen. It would be wise to go
into safemode and password the "administrator", if there are others who may
use your pc, otherwise anyone can access the pc by using f8. by default XP
baseline will alert you anytime there is more than one (1) administrator on
your pc. You don't see the original admin as soon as create the first admin
account, but its still there, there are three admins.
1. administrator
2. you
3. your husband.
"Mary" <dalemry@aol.com> wrote in message
news:0ab801c34ca3$8446f990$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I ran a baseline security scan. The results said I had
> too many administrator accounts. The report showed my
> husband and me, but the third one is a long string of
> numbers. When I check my accounts the only two listed are
> the two that should be there. How do I find out who or
> what this string of numbers is and how do I get rid of it?

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