Unwanted startup account

ICit2lol said:

- Was trying to install two other machines with security and well I should listen to my mate who constantly tells me to take things slower

Trouble is there is not enough hours in a day eh?

Thanks to you both you have been very patient with a silly old err person like me!:)

You're welcome!

And, hey: Haste makes waste, and sometimes it ends up taking a lot more time to clean up after a mistake!

I hate when that happens!

Lucky in your case here it was benign. :)

By the way, re-read this post about a password for the built-in admin account:

F5ing said:

Re-read my prior post -- there's an addition. BTW, you should have been successful with that command; it had to have been a typo, or not from an elevated command prompt, or something...

And, yeah, that's why local users and groups isn't available.

One thing I'd do while you have it enabled is to go ahead and establish a secure password for it, then disable it. Just for security...

tlarseth said:

You can go into your user accounts in the control panel and there is an option there to disable the admin account.

But he's doing it on a Home Premium machine.

ICit2lol said:

tlarseth said:

F5ing said:

But he's doing it on a Home Premium machine.

I was able to do it on my Home Premium 64 Bit SP1 install, but if he did the command prompt way that is cool too.

Hiyya T maybe a regional thing my friend as I am told that it does sometimes vary.:)

John

Maybe it is something regional, like the "N" or "K" or whatever version or something like that. I've never seen it on any HPs I've messed with in the past. Or maybe some update enables it? Haven't looked in a while, but a quick check on the HP I'm using right now doesn't show it, and it's fully updated.

Anyway, John, glad to hear that you're squared away!! :)

Always nice to go to bed and comeback to a solved topic. Glad you got it to work.