Hi all. I have a computer that has an old administrator account on it in addition to my administrator account. I can't seem to delete the old administrator account.
When I go to control panel > user accounts, I see two administrative accounts. One is named "Administrator" and says underneath, "Computer Administrator". This is the account I'm logged in on. The other is someone's name but also says "Computer Administrator."
I want to delete the other account. When I click on the person's name, there is no "remove user" option, though "change account type" is there. So I figured I had to change the account type to a non-administrator before I could delete it. But when I click "change account type," "limited" is grayed out and it won't let me change it, saying that "you must assign another user to be a computer administrator first, so that there is at least one computer administrator." But I am a computer administrator! I even double checked this by logging in as the other user and trying to delete my own account, but it says the same thing...that another administrator is needed first.
So I have no idea what the problem is. It obviously doesn't recognize that there are two administrators. Also, and I don't think this has anything to do with anything but just in case, when I start up the computer the boot screen asks me what operating system I want to start, as if I have two installed. It only gives me 2 seconds to decide before going to the first one. They both, however, say Windows XP, and if I manually choose the second one, the computer comes up in exactly the same way as if I chose the first one.
I've also used partition magic to make sure there wasn't some rogue partition going on and there doesn't seem to be. But I wonder if one administrator is attached to one pseudo-operating system and the other to the other one if this could perhaps be the problem. But I can switch easily between users so this doesn't seem to be the case either. I'm typically good at this stuff, but apparently not this good! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeremy
When I go to control panel > user accounts, I see two administrative accounts. One is named "Administrator" and says underneath, "Computer Administrator". This is the account I'm logged in on. The other is someone's name but also says "Computer Administrator."
I want to delete the other account. When I click on the person's name, there is no "remove user" option, though "change account type" is there. So I figured I had to change the account type to a non-administrator before I could delete it. But when I click "change account type," "limited" is grayed out and it won't let me change it, saying that "you must assign another user to be a computer administrator first, so that there is at least one computer administrator." But I am a computer administrator! I even double checked this by logging in as the other user and trying to delete my own account, but it says the same thing...that another administrator is needed first.
So I have no idea what the problem is. It obviously doesn't recognize that there are two administrators. Also, and I don't think this has anything to do with anything but just in case, when I start up the computer the boot screen asks me what operating system I want to start, as if I have two installed. It only gives me 2 seconds to decide before going to the first one. They both, however, say Windows XP, and if I manually choose the second one, the computer comes up in exactly the same way as if I chose the first one.
I've also used partition magic to make sure there wasn't some rogue partition going on and there doesn't seem to be. But I wonder if one administrator is attached to one pseudo-operating system and the other to the other one if this could perhaps be the problem. But I can switch easily between users so this doesn't seem to be the case either. I'm typically good at this stuff, but apparently not this good! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeremy
