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More info?)
Dave-
I suspect you are running XP Pro and not Home...?
(I don't _know_ if the following is true for XP-Home as it is for Pro, but
suspect it is...)
1st: believe me, The Administrator Account is still there even if you can't
"see it" on the Welcome screen. While AT the Welcome Screen, CTRL+ALT+DEL
twice will bring up the NT-classic login dialog and in there you can enter
"Administrator" for the account name and password below it to login as The
Administrator. Here are some related articles:
Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281992&Product=winxp
Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm
[Courtesy of MS-MVP Doug Knox]
Also, XP **REQUIRES** that there be at least two accounts - at all times -
that have administrator priviledges: The Administrator account, plus one
other owner/user-created account.
Since you created "George" as an administrator acct, XP was happy, life was
good.
But now you want to take "George" away and kill him. XP won't let you have
him, "George" belongs to XP.
So... you have a few options:
1) Create a new account, "Jane" and make it a member of the Administrators
group, then you can remove "George"
2) Log on as The Administrator and lockout "George" if all you want to do is
prohibit access to your computer via the "George" account (to do this,
Rt-click My Computer, select Manage, expand [the + sign] Local Users and
Groups, click on Users, dbl-click "George" tick the bottom box Account
Disabled and click OK). \this hoowever, will not remove "George"s profile
data or anything, just disable the account from being used.
"Dave" wrote:
> Some time ago I added a new user (call it George) and granted Administrator
> rights. I am now attempting to remove that account, but I cannot because it
> is the "only administrator account" on the computer. THE "Administrator"
> account does NOT appear to have admin. rights... And the George account
> cannot "see" the Administratir account to grant admin rights...
>
> Help?