Unwanted startup account

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  1. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Unwanted startup account


    I Had to uninstall the ATi drivers from my machine this pm to test a NVidia card. Now I watched (foolishly in hindsight) a video on how to do this and during this video it advised that in regedit one had to type "NET ADMINISTRATOR /ACTIVE:YES" now I knew no better so carnied on and now when I power up the machine I get an Administrator account and my original one.

    So being the smart person I am I ran that instruction only typing NO at the the end thinking it would revert back to just my own personal account - WRONG!!

    So can someone tell me how to get rid of that annoying start up feature please?
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  2. Posts : 881
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #2

    Go to your computer management console. Then local users and groups. Then select users. Right click on administrator. Go to properties. Put a checkbox in account is disabled..
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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       #3

    Hum don't seem to have a local users and groups in mine?
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  4. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #4

    What edition of w7 is it?

    No matter what edition, you should be able to use the command line:

    Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    F5ing said:
    What edition of w7 is it?
    Home Premium F5 and I have found that feature may only be a Pro or Ultimate feature - from what I can make out anyway.
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  6. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #6

    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...
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    F5ing said:
    Re-read my prior post -- there's an addition.

    And, yeah, that's why local users and groups isn't available.
    Ooops F5 sorry my friend I completely missed that I'll give it a go but as I said the tutorial mentions what I did in my original post. I just reversed the command but it is still there but anyway I'll try again - thanks.
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  8. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #8

    And re-read my last one; I added to it as well...
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  9. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    F5ing said:
    And re-read my last one; I added to it as well...
    I found what I did wrong I missed typing "user" into that command line so I was doing the right thing first up but not paying enough attention

    - 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!:)
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  10. Posts : 212
    Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_rtm.120725-1247)
       #10

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