Re: cant remove or change acct type of 2nd administrator account

You can not delete the built in administrator account so my guess is that is
what you are trying to do. You should be able to delete any other user
account other then that or guest. You can use the command net loaclgroup
administrators to see what users are members of the administrators group.
The built in administrator account can be renamed however which can make it
difficult to determine that it is indeed the built in administrator account.
The built in administrator account however will always have a SID that ends
with 500 that can be shown with programs that show a user's SID such as
whoami.

Steve



"Paul Reed" <PaulReed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3CD56631-9BD9-44F0-A05B-66D28045DEEF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,

I am running XPSP2 and besides having the normal "administrator" account I
also have another one that is of type administrator. I want to remove this
second account. I boot in safe mode (so I can login to the default
administrator account), login just fine...however, when I select this
"other"
admin account there is no delete option offered. So, I figured maybe it
wants
me to change the account type to non-administrator but when I do that it
says
I must have another administrator account. The default administrator
account
is defenitely of type "administrator".

What's up with this?

Thanks in advance,

Paul


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