Renaming the local Administrator account on Windows XP Pro

From: John Recknagel (Recknagel_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:29:05 -0700

I would like to know if someone knows of a method to automate the renaming of
the local Administrator account with a randomly generated name. I know how to
create a random password with the following command:
net user Administrator /random

This will generate a random strong password for the local Administrator
account. Is there such a thing for the user account name? Is there third
party software available that will accomplish this task?

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