Deleting excess Administrator accounts


  1. Posts : 299
    Windows 7 x64 Pro
       #1

    Deleting excess Administrator accounts


    I had some system issues last week which caused me to recover from a restore point several times. The restore point was made prior to enabling the Administrator account (which was needed for the fun-n-games), thus I had to enable the Administrator account after each recovery which led to there being five \user\Administrator... directories on my machine. Needless to say, each of these directories has a folder icon with a lock...

    So, a simple question: Can I get rid of these extra folders? If so, how?

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 31
    W7
       #2

    GRoston said:
    I had some system issues last week which caused me to recover from a restore point several times. The restore point was made prior to enabling the Administrator account (which was needed for the fun-n-games), thus I had to enable the Administrator account after each recovery which led to there being five \user\Administrator... directories on my machine. Needless to say, each of these directories has a folder icon with a lock...

    So, a simple question: Can I get rid of these extra folders? If so, how?

    Thanks.
    1. Rightclick on the folder

    2. chose properties

    3. chose security tab

    4. chose advanced

    5. chose owner tab

    6. click edit

    7. click your username

    8. check the tickbox

    9. click ok a few times until your out of the dialog
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  3. NoN
    Posts : 4,166
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 - x64 [Non-UEFI Boot]
       #3

    Hi, You should be able to do it here:
    Just delete all the Admin accounts!
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    Last edited by NoN; 03 Apr 2010 at 10:19.
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