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can't get back to my origninal administrator account



 
 
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Old March 20th 04, 07:24 PM
zeus
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i renamed my original ADMINISTRATOR (referred as 1) account to a name of my choice thru local security policy. but i by mistake also created an account with administrator(2) priviliges. now i don want the newly created account(referred as 2). can i delete
(2) since when i log in as administartor(1) i cannot delete the admin level user(2) since it says i need to have an account with admin privilges to delete this account(2). its unneccesarily lying there and my admin (1) is not showing in the log-on screen f
orcing me to use the classic logon. BTW i have winXP pro
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Old March 21st 04, 07:41 AM
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check with user accounts i sent them something U could try they have the same basic problem

----- zeus wrote: -----

i renamed my original ADMINISTRATOR (referred as 1) account to a name of my choice thru local security policy. but i by mistake also created an account with administrator(2) priviliges. now i don want the newly created account(referred as 2). can i de
lete (2) since when i log in as administartor(1) i cannot delete the admin level user(2) since it says i need to have an account with admin privilges to delete this account(2). its unneccesarily lying there and my admin (1) is not showing in the log-on scr
een forcing me to use the classic logon. BTW i have winXP pro
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Old March 21st 04, 08:21 AM
zeus
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din know what happened but i actually went to manage (right click on my computer) and from went straight to users where all the users were listed. simply deleted that account and lo! it doesn't show up anymore in controlpaneluser accounts or in the logon
screen.
 




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