Delete Admin account

Hey there fellow geeks,


Platform:
P4 2.6GHz
512MB Ram
Hard drive two partitions defaults - C:\ & E:\

O/S:
XP Pro SP3

Scenario

I have been using Windows Steady State, and trialling its capabilities. Reccommend this for certain multi-user environments, and its free!

When fiinialising my current build for the training wing I created a copy of the My Documents using the right click option and sent it to the E:\ partition if the students profile, then a user account, want to salughter this then fine had a default backup on C:\ and can protect C:\ using Steady state, although was not enabled at the time.

Some-what out smarting myself? I altered former training / User account to an Administrator account, while this account was still a user I had transferred to E:\ and altered to an administrator account. All just to make life easier with some last minute permissions...

Now the fun has begun, I cannot seem to lock down the account as far as disabling the deleting of the My documents on the desktop, since the same account has been set back to a user account.

I did note, with some disgust that when I changed this to an administrator account the inherit properties etc to all sub folders check box was ticked.. although this was noted after the change back to a user account.

Also while trouble shooting this I noted the second partition E:\ now has an Administrator account, this is where the former user / training account was moved via Steady State prior to promoting to Administrator. I believe this was the former training account promoted to administrator and then demoted to a user, but it has left the administrator account with no files seemingly here on the same E:\ partition...? But still unable to delete this, took the read only off and made the permissions as lax as possible from another admin from the C:\, and still couldnt remove this...

Well I really, really, really want to remove this puppy, the Administrator account that is, and not have it on the E:\ drive but being an administrator account windows is telling me I cant delete it ...waaaaaahhh :cry:cry:confused

Please my fellow geeks anyone got an assist for this?? getting rid of the E:\ Administrator account... there are still two administrator accounts on C:\...

Cheers in advance L8r:wave

 

Hey guys,


Well really no biggie at the end of the day, just needed to re-apraise the scenario, have a break...

Just booted in safe mode to be sure, then Cut the offending administrator account out of E:\ - plopped it onto an A:\ and formatted the sucker just to make me feel better... all done... yay


L8r guyswave

 

Glad to see you got it fixed. Just wondering...do we need administrator accounts at all? I'd like to get rid of it on my Vista Home Premium. The XP pro isn't annoying. But Vista...well:cry

P.S. I'm a novice at this stuff

 

Hey there melm,

You surly need an administrator account at least one.

To simplify the geek out of the administrator account / profile, it is somnewhat like the parent of the computer it decides what the user / children (or user accounts) can and cannot do and can also define certain permissions or actions on certain folders so certain users or groups can access and write data to this file or alter a file, while another user may just view it, this is done with "permissions" certain types of accounts have permissions set by default. An administrator account has open slather on all areas of a computer and can do almost anything somewhat - like a God as far as the computers operating system is concerned. While a standard user account is a bit like a peasant, they can open view and delete files in their own account (even though a user accounts files can still be restricted by an administrator account setting permissions on it) but potentially not access or delete files in other accounts (user names with administrator rights privileges) or programs - again the administrator can configure / define the computers users access to any file via permissions or even "group policy"

So in essence you need someone - Administrator profile at the top to manage those accounts at the bottom User profile or lower priveleges.

There must always be one Administrator account in windows since gosh wndows 95 or 98 days even if with the old windows 98 you could just type in administrator as user name and administator as password and you were in - very dangerous and not very secure, administrator accounts have come along way since then...

An update to this original, issue also had to do a regedit to stop the freakin registry trying to access the A:\ where i had copied the profile to, probably should have just done this in first instance...

L8r geeks:wave

 

Thanks for the info...

Melissa