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Old 03-28-2009   #1 (permalink)
john


 
 

Can not disable the activated administrator account in Home Basic

Hi, all. I am using vista home basic, PC is from HP.

I have used "net user administrator active: yes"command line to enable
administrator account to install some software, but now I want to disable
the account to ensure the security of sytem, but failed!

After I input "net user administrator active: no" using command line running
as admin, I found the account of Admin has been protected by password in the
control panel, and I NEVER set up any password on this computer yet. Then I
restarted the computer, the DAMNED admin account is still there and I have
to log onto it with password! If not, I have to log onto another user to
delete the password!

What can I do to disable the admin account? Where is the admin password
from? What is it?

The most secure action is to set up a strong password of admin, and then run
the OS every time as a common user? But now the number of svchost.exe
processes has increased up to 15! That slowed down the computer.---I just
want to go back to the disabled admin account status..


My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 04-08-2009   #2 (permalink)
Samuel Laibahas


 
 

RE: Can not disable the activated administrator account in Home Basic

what account ( account admin or different account ) you used to disable
account admin?

if you used account admin to disable account admin then try to used
different account with administrator priviledge to disable that admin account.

"john" wrote:
Quote:

> Hi, all. I am using vista home basic, PC is from HP.
>
> I have used "net user administrator active: yes"command line to enable
> administrator account to install some software, but now I want to disable
> the account to ensure the security of sytem, but failed!
>
> After I input "net user administrator active: no" using command line running
> as admin, I found the account of Admin has been protected by password in the
> control panel, and I NEVER set up any password on this computer yet. Then I
> restarted the computer, the DAMNED admin account is still there and I have
> to log onto it with password! If not, I have to log onto another user to
> delete the password!
>
> What can I do to disable the admin account? Where is the admin password
> from? What is it?
>
> The most secure action is to set up a strong password of admin, and then run
> the OS every time as a common user? But now the number of svchost.exe
> processes has increased up to 15! That slowed down the computer.---I just
> want to go back to the disabled admin account status..
>
>
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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