Microsoft default account

From: Samuel (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:33:46 -0700

Hi there, need some help on this :
I used to have a default Windows XP account on my home
PC, which automatically log in without any logging in
screen as there is no users.
However, I just created a user, and upon finding that I
do not need it, I can't delete it as you need a second
ADMIN account to do so. Also, I can't change back to my
default user mode, which means my settings,files and
startup are all different in the new user mode.
I have already checked, my default user's file is still
on the hard drive, but I can't log in as that. I can't
manually delete the new user account too, as there will
be a windows box saying it is a critical windows file and
I can't rename/move/change it.

Is there any way to change the situation? Help is greatly
appreciated.

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