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Remove Administrator icon from logon screen
I started this question at the “Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable” forum where it was suggested I move it here.
I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 32-bit. When I first got this laptop many months ago, I needed to perform some action (I do not remember the details) which required "administrator privilege". I wasn't sure exactly what that meant, so I posed the question at a forum (unfortunately, not this one -- I learned of this forum only later), and was told to put an Administrator icon on the logon screen, which I did. I do not remember exactly how I was told to do that, but I seem to recall that it involved a change to the Registry. The Administrator icon has been on the logon screen ever since, next to an icon labeled with my name.
A friend has suggested that having the Administrator icon on the logon window is not a good idea, so now I am trying to find out how to remove it.
At the “Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable” forum it was suggested that I download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and run it several times, which I have done. The software found only one bad guy , on the first run, which was
As suggested, here is what I have done:Registry Keys Infected:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{1d4db7d2-6ec9-47a3-bd87-1e41684e07bb} (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
Following the instructions at
1) Elevated Command Prompt, I opened an elevated command prompt showing c:\windows\system32, and then at
2) Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable (Option Two "Through a Elevated Command Prompt". item 3), I typed into the elevated command prompt, "net user administrator/active:no" and pressed ENTER.
That brought up this response: "The user name could not be found"
The Administrator icon remains on the logon screen.
I am completely stumped, and I ask for your help! Thank you.