Deleting User Account to Administrator

[Linda Driskell]

My problem is the following:

I need to delete a user on my system. I'm to be the
administrator on my system but cannot delete the user.
I've gone to start, settings, control panel and double
clicked user accounts but still cannot delete the user and
I'm not the admistrator. I have just found out by looking
at the microsoft help page that I'm set up as a work group
and not domain. I have only one computer in my home. Why
is it set as work group? How do I change it to domain and
make myself the administrator?

Thanks for your response and help!
Linda
silky1942

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Linda Driskell" > wrote in message
...
> My problem is the following:
>
> I need to delete a user on my system. I'm to be the
> administrator on my system but cannot delete the user.
> I've gone to start, settings, control panel and double
> clicked user accounts but still cannot delete the user and
> I'm not the admistrator. I have just found out by looking
> at the microsoft help page that I'm set up as a work group
> and not domain. I have only one computer in my home. Why
> is it set as work group? How do I change it to domain and
> make myself the administrator?
>
> Thanks for your response and help!
> Linda
> silky1942

You have to be an administrator first before you can create or
delete a user account. If the other account is an administrator,
use it to upgrade your account to administrator. Then you can use
your account to delete other accounts. Take care that you have at
least one administrator account on your computer. Normally, the
operating system will not allow you to delete or downgrade the only
remaining administrator account. Some users are able to do it
through brute force.

A domain setup require Windows XP Professional. With a domain, you
sign on to a domain controller computer from your individual
computer. You cannot have a domain with only one computer. In a
workgroup, equal computers are connected to share files and
resources. For example, you might be able to afford only one laser
printer in your house. Your child has a large file on his computer
which will not fit on a floppy disk. If you connect the two
computers in a workgroup, your child could print his file on the
laser printer attached to your computer. Another example is that
you could review your child's work without having to go to his
computer to do so. He could put it into a shared folder for you to
look at and critique.

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Earl F. Parrish